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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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Read more about the article the girl who was smoking
Igor Moritz, Redbreast Road North Corner, 2019. Courtesy of the artist

the girl who was smoking

  • Post author:Michael Barron
  • Post published:July 28, 2021
  • Post category:featured/Issue 9/poetry

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

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

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

  • Post author:flimflamjimjam
  • Post published:September 8, 2015
  • Post category:poetry

Three poems by Umberto Saba translated from Italian by Paula Bohince

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Read more about the article We are planets  with personality flaws

We are planets with personality flaws

  • Post author:flimflamjimjam
  • Post published:April 30, 2014
  • Post category:poetry

Six poems by Francesca Pellegrino, translated from the Italian by Adria Bernardi

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Read more about the article every theater is an anatomical theater

every theater is an anatomical theater

  • Post author:flimflamjimjam
  • Post published:March 27, 2013
  • Post category:poetry

Seven poems by Edoardo Sanguineti, with translations and an introduction by Will Schutt

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Read more about the article who will quell our intense desire  to solve

who will quell our intense desire to solve

  • Post author:flimflamjimjam
  • Post published:July 25, 2012
  • Post category:poetry

Four poems by Donata Berra with an introduction and translations by Charif Shanahan

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