Insana Jolanda - Slashing Sounds A Bilingual Edition - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Slashing Sounds A Bilingual Edition
Author(s): Insana Jolanda
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226835747
Pages: 96 Pages
Publication Date: 10/17/2024
Series: Phoenix Poets
Category: Literature: History & Criticism