Transparencies (2nd Edition)

by Maria Borio

ISBN: 9781954218307

Published: 2025-05-22

The visceral and surreal English-language debut of one of Italy's most promising younger poets, Maria Borio. Brimming with windows, screens, and high-rise glass, Maria Borio's first English-language collection confronts the interpersonal crises of contemporary lives caught between two worlds -- one ancient and abiding, the other rapid, digital, and increasingly diverse. Translator Danielle Pieratti captures the dissonance of Borio's sharp lyricism and clipped rhythms, creating a contemporary English-language poetry that preserves the poet's engagement with Italian modernisms. || "In Maria Borio's Transparencies, the language is anything but. These poems shimmer along the line between abstraction and flesh where our relationships --both intimate and public -- are imagined and lived. At once surreal (bees emerging from mouths) and concrete (hair and fingernails in a drawer among neatly folded shirts), cosmic (in 'the sharp, lunar wind') and terrestrial ('in limestone' in 'high-rise...