Slashing Sounds : A Bilingual Edition.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Insana, Jolanda.

Contributor:

Theis, Catherine.

Series:

Phoenix Poets Series

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (78 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2024.

Language Note:

Parallel text in Italian and English.

Summary:

The first collection of Italian poet Jolanda Insana’s work to be published in English, featuring transgressive poems that evidence the power of language. Jolanda Insana’s Slashing Sounds uses invectives, fragments, epigrams, and epigraphs to construct poems that pulse with the texture of an idiosyncratic Sicilian dialect. The poems in this collection are ferocious, irreverent, strange, snarky, and otherworldly. Insana’s commitment to contentiousness, her brutal and skeptical eye, and her preoccupation with language make Insana’s poetry particularly arresting. For Insana, there is no subject more worthy of our interest than language’s misfires and contradictory impulses—language being the ultimate arrow, forging a direction in the world and forcing a turn toward whatever reality appears in front of you. The first book-length collection of Insana’s poetry published in English, Slashing Sounds is a powerful offering that addresses a lack of female Italian voices in Anglophone poetry publishing.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Translator’s Note

Slashing Sounds

Un vecchio piacere

Un’altra afasia

Nessuna consolazione

Stercoraria e nullatenente

Del poesificio

Coltellate di bellezza

Sono questi i fiori

Non è per vanto

È un vecchio chiodo

Servizio d’attesa

E venga un nuovo scorticatore

Corda bagnata in acqualanfa

Notes on Latin Phrases

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780226835754

0226835758

OCLC:

1455293615