Eight poems from Franca Mancinelli’s « Mother Dough » in Tupelo Quarterly

• Post By: johntaylor
• Date: 29 novembre 2019
• Category: News

Eight poems from Franca Mancinelli’s collection Pasta Madre (Mother Dough) have appeared in the Tupelo Quarterly. Here is one of the poems, in an English translation by John Taylor:

“I worked with death
in my heart for a month.”
And her eyes brim over with the thought
of nights when on the other side
of the bed a river was slowly
clogging with garbage. Then in the depths
of sleep a big boatyard
linked life back up to four bridges.
For twenty years we’ve been sleeping
together and only now
do I know that blood flows
from my atrium to his.

—translated by John Taylor

© John Taylor

Franca Mancinelli’s prose poems are available in The Little Book of Passage (Bitter Oleander Press, 2018)