italy

The trumpets of a warlike hope

An excerpt from Simultaneities & Lyric Chemisms by Ardengo Soffici, translated by Olivia Sears

comedy of flowers and of emptiness

A poem by vito m. bonito, translated from Italian by Allison Grimaldi Donahue

the girl who was smoking

A poem by Natalia Ginzburg, translated from Italian by André Naffis-Sahely

And if you loved me—I thought—wouldn’t there be more tomorrow?

Three poems by Umberto Saba translated from Italian by Paula Bohince

We are planets with personality flaws

every theater is an anatomical theater

who will quell our intense desire to solve