from Last Stops of the Night Journey
Word count: 916
Paragraphs: 78
GUERRA DI TRINCEA
TRENCH WARFARE
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Questa morte è un’officina
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This death is a repair shop
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Tutto cominciò in una cameretta
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It all began in a little bedroom
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Iniziai dunque a trattare, sì, a trattare
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I began, then, to negotiate, yes, to negotiate
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Con la morte ho tentato seriamente
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I gave death a serious try
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Con la morte ho cercato ancora
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With death I searched again
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Poi, di colpo, un lunedì di febbraio
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Then, suddenly, a Monday in February
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E ha cominciato a parlare,
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And she began to talk,
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“Sarai una sillaba senza luce,
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“You will be a syllable without light,
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From his publication of Somiglianze in 1975 at the age of twenty-four, Milo De Angelis is among the most celebrated of living Italian poets. Known beyond his poetry for his essays and translations of Virgil, Lucretius, Racine, Baudelaire, and Blanchot, in the 1970s he founded the literary journal Il Niebo. In 2017, De Angelis was awarded the prestigious Premio Lerici Pea for his body of work.
Patrizio Ceccagnoli is a translator, editor, and professor of Italian at the University of Kansas. He has edited multiple manuscripts by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, for which he was nominated for the Marino Moretti Award.
Susan Stewart is a poet, critic, and translator. A former MacArthur Fellow and Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she is the author of seven volumes of poems, including Columbarium, which won the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award.