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A review by grimalkin
Allegria by Geoffrey Brock, Giuseppe Ungaretti
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3.5
Allegria (trans. Geoffrey Brock) is a collection that can perhaps be best described as a collection of newspaper clippings if the news was brought to us in the form of poetry. Storing a passage of time, memories. These poems are deeply resonant, strangely echoing with violence, sleeplessness, a melancholy that does not sit still but dances at the fringe. The style that resembles a concisely cut diamond still wearing a cover of dust. Honed. Sharp. Measured but does not feel deliberate. Some of these poems constitute barely ten words.
“Confused in this dark I make out my
Face
With frozen hands
I see myself in adrift
In the infinite.” --- Another Night.
So beautiful, and even though the poems are filled with such darkness, they are radiant with profound humanness. It reminded me of some of those slow, melancholic soundtracks, like Clint Mansell's score for The Fountain. Sad but...alive.
Thank you so much to Archipelago and #Edelweiss for this advance readers copy. I loved it.
Allegria (trans. Geoffrey Brock) is a collection that can perhaps be best described as a collection of newspaper clippings if the news was brought to us in the form of poetry. Storing a passage of time, memories. These poems are deeply resonant, strangely echoing with violence, sleeplessness, a melancholy that does not sit still but dances at the fringe. The style that resembles a concisely cut diamond still wearing a cover of dust. Honed. Sharp. Measured but does not feel deliberate. Some of these poems constitute barely ten words.
“Confused in this dark I make out my
Face
With frozen hands
I see myself in adrift
In the infinite.” --- Another Night.
So beautiful, and even though the poems are filled with such darkness, they are radiant with profound humanness. It reminded me of some of those slow, melancholic soundtracks, like Clint Mansell's score for The Fountain. Sad but...alive.
Thank you so much to Archipelago and #Edelweiss for this advance readers copy. I loved it.