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dean_ax's review against another edition
2.0
La poesia purtroppo non mi è mai piaciuta e Ungaretti non mi ha fatto cambiare idea. Due stelle come le due uniche poesie che ho apprezzato ed evidenziato.
betta's review against another edition
3.0
Thank you Archipelago and Netgalley for the e-copy.
Researching more into the author and on the poetry book itself really made me appreciate it even more.
I requested this poetry book not only because I’m falling in love with Archipelago Publishing but also because it was a poetry book by an Italian author. As I grew up in Italy and consider myself Italian, I wanted to read something in Italian as well, and reading the Italian poems followed by the English translated version of them made me experience them twice and made me love each single one more and more.
These poems are deep and heavy, as they are his experience with war.
These poems aren’t only about war but they’re also about the self.
I'm so glad I got to read this poetry collection and being able to experience them to the fullest.
Would definitely recommend it if you love deep and beautiful poetry that will make you think about other’s experiences with heavy moments in their lives, and in general if you love poetry that allows you to think deep and wonder.
Researching more into the author and on the poetry book itself really made me appreciate it even more.
I requested this poetry book not only because I’m falling in love with Archipelago Publishing but also because it was a poetry book by an Italian author. As I grew up in Italy and consider myself Italian, I wanted to read something in Italian as well, and reading the Italian poems followed by the English translated version of them made me experience them twice and made me love each single one more and more.
These poems are deep and heavy, as they are his experience with war.
These poems aren’t only about war but they’re also about the self.
I'm so glad I got to read this poetry collection and being able to experience them to the fullest.
Would definitely recommend it if you love deep and beautiful poetry that will make you think about other’s experiences with heavy moments in their lives, and in general if you love poetry that allows you to think deep and wonder.
grimalkin's review
4.0
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.
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