The Little Book of Passage
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The Little Book of Passage by Franca Mancinelli
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian by John Taylor. THE LITLE BOK OF PASAGE is the story of the crossing of an inner fault line, a travel diary through the territories of the psyche: presences close to disappearing and dreamlike atmospheres act as a deforming mirror in regard to the gestures and happenstances of everyday life. Allusiveness and precision, density and evanescence, are juxtaposed and integrated in this continuous attempt to focus on and pronounce the world. As in a rite of passage, Franca Mancinelli, who lets herself be visited by shadows, recomposes the fragments of an open identity, which has never abandoned the origin.
Mancinelli, Franca: - Franca Mancinelli was born in Fano, Italy. She is widely considered to be one of the most compelling new poetic voices in Italian poetry. Her first two collections of verse poetry, Mala kruna (2007) and Pasta madre (2013), now entirely translated in this book along with a selection of new poems, were awarded several prizes in Italy and later republished together as A un'ora di sonno da qui (2018). In 2018 also appeared her collection of prose poems, Libretto di transito, available in English from the Bitter Oleander Press as THE LITTLE BOOK OF PASSAGE (2018), and in 2020, AT AN HOUR'S SLEEP FROM HERE. She has participated in international projects such as the Chair Poet in Residence (Kolkata, India, 2019) and Refest: Images and Words on Refugee Routes. From this latter experience was born her Taccuino croato (Croatian Notebook), now published in Come tradurre la neve (How to Translate the Snow, 2019). Her writing has been translated into several other foreign languages and published in journals and anthologies.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780999327920 |
| ISBN 10 | 0999327925 |
| Title | The Little Book of Passage |
| Author | Franca Mancinelli |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bitter Oleander Press |
| Year published | 2018-09-28 |
| Number of pages | 104 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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