Franca Mancinelli and John Taylor: A Dialogue in Verse

• Post By: johntaylor
• Date: 10 décembre 2022
• Category: News

Franca Mancinelli and John Taylor have written a « dialogue in verse »: Come le briciole di Hansel / Like Hansel’s Breadcrumbs. The first half of the dialogue, with Mancinelli’s poetic sequence « In questo transito terrestre / On this Earthly Journey » translated into English by John Taylor, has appeared in the issue No.20 (June 2022) of the journal Traduzionetradizione. The opening poem:

 

crollano le braccia

come rami secchi. Altri occhi

si aprono nel corpo

buchi nell’universo

 

the arms give way

like dry branches. Other eyes

open in the body

holes in the universe.