Robert Wilhelm Ekman, Palazzolo, Italian Landscape, 1839.
lighted in its silence
A poem by Salvatore Quasimodo, translated from Italian by Charles Guenther.
Still Life with Roses, Elias van den Broeck.
The trumpets of a warlike hope
An excerpt from Simultaneities & Lyric Chemisms by Ardengo Soffici, translated by Olivia Sears
The Spectre Rose into Space, O. Guillonnet, 1894.
comedy of flowers and of emptiness
A poem by vito m. bonito, translated from Italian by Allison Grimaldi Donahue
Igor Moritz, Redbreast Road North Corner, 2019. Courtesy of the artist
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
Six poems by Francesca Pellegrino, translated from the Italian by Adria Bernardi
every theater is an anatomical theater
Seven poems by Edoardo Sanguineti, with translations and an introduction by Will Schutt
who will quell our intense desire to solve
Four poems by Donata Berra with an introduction and translations by Charif Shanahan