Daily Glance: Giovenale



Marco Giovenale's Maniera Nera has been sitting by my reading stand for the past few months.  I take it up, read a little, and then come back to it later.  By this point, I've read it many times, but several pieces keep calling me back.  It's a collection of half hidden things, half found things.  The language leads and then breaks off.  There is a theme of what can be seen and what cannot be and how that contributes to what we know.
a meno di settembre ovvero
prima di settembre    il vuoto ha capo.
The language is partially found and partially discovered, and it is fascinating, and for readers who mostly know Giovenale from his large presence in the Asemic scene, it shows another facet of his poetry trajectory.
*Note: the text is in Italian, and it would be a great short book to translate into English.

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