Author : Jolanda Insana
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226835758
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Book Synopsis Slashing Sounds by : Jolanda Insana
Download or read book Slashing Sounds written by Jolanda Insana and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-10-21 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of Italian poet Jolanda Insana’s work to be published in English, featuring transgressive poems that evidence the power of language. Jolanda Insana’s Slashing Sounds uses invectives, fragments, epigrams, and epigraphs to construct poems that pulse with the texture of an idiosyncratic Sicilian dialect. The poems in this collection are ferocious, irreverent, strange, snarky, and otherworldly. Insana’s commitment to contentiousness, her brutal and skeptical eye, and her preoccupation with language make Insana’s poetry particularly arresting. For Insana, there is no subject more worthy of our interest than language’s misfires and contradictory impulses—language being the ultimate arrow, forging a direction in the world and forcing a turn toward whatever reality appears in front of you. The first book-length collection of Insana’s poetry published in English, Slashing Sounds is a powerful offering that addresses a lack of female Italian voices in Anglophone poetry publishing.