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Read more about the article now we plummet toward the original spark

now we plummet toward the original spark

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:April 1, 2026
  • Post category:featured/poetry

Five poems from Milo De Angelis' Last Stops of the Night Journey, translated from the Italian by Susan Stewart and Patrizio Ceccagnoli

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Double Vision

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:October 27, 2025
  • Post category:featured/fiction

An excerpt from One, None, and a Hundred Grand by Luigi Pirandello, translated from Italian by Sean Wilsey

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Read more about the article five apartments
Wall tiles from the funerary apartments of king Djoser, Old Kingdom. Open access courtesy of The Met Museum.

five apartments

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:May 5, 2025
  • Post category:featured/poetry

Five poems by Carmen Gallo, translated from Italian by Livia Franchini

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Read more about the article gazing towards the expanse
Auguste Renoir, Sea and Cliffs, ca. 1885. Public domain.

gazing towards the expanse

  • Post author:Jack Rockwell
  • Post published:November 19, 2024
  • Post category:featured/poetry

Three poems by Laura Pugno, translated from the Italian by Julia Nelsen

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Read more about the article it gives the broken piece its meaning

it gives the broken piece its meaning

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:April 25, 2024
  • Post category:featured/poetry

Three poems from Late Montale by Eugenio Montale, translated from Italian by George Bradley

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Read more about the article I Started Painting Again Yesterday

I Started Painting Again Yesterday

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:February 5, 2024
  • Post category:essay/featured/Issue 11

From Issue 11, an essay from HERETICAL AESTHETICS by Pier Paolo Pasolini, translated from Italian by Alessandro Giammei and Ara H. Merjian.

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Read more about the article I believe you’d call it fear
Maggie King Johns, Night Flowers (Between the Dog and the Wolf). Courtesy of the artist.

I believe you’d call it fear

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:November 14, 2023
  • Post category:featured/poetry

Four poems by Mariangela Gualtieri, translated from Italian by Olivia Sears

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Read more about the article lighted in its silence
Robert Wilhelm Ekman, Palazzolo, Italian Landscape, 1839.

lighted in its silence

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:January 23, 2023
  • Post category:featured/Issue 4/poetry

A poem by Salvatore Quasimodo, translated from Italian by Charles Guenther.

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Read more about the article The trumpets of a warlike hope
Still Life with Roses, Elias van den Broeck.

The trumpets of a warlike hope

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:September 27, 2022
  • Post category:featured/poetry

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

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Read more about the article comedy of flowers and of emptiness
The Spectre Rose into Space, O. Guillonnet, 1894.

comedy of flowers and of emptiness

  • Post author:Elina Alter
  • Post published:November 29, 2021
  • Post category:featured/poetry

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

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