Poetry. ELEGY FOR DEAD LANGUAGES collects in print the long documentary poems "War Rug," "Elegy for Dead Languages," and "Hood, Handgun, Power Drill." "Francesco Levato's powerful documentary, War Rug—like Eliot Weinberger's What I Heard About Iraq before it—detains the language of the perpetrators of global military aggression and redeploys it to indict them. From J.C. Penny catalog copy to counterintelligence manuals and autopsy reports, War Rug is a fierce yet unfortunate reminder of the absolute horrors of our age"—Mark Nowak.

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Poet, translator, and filmmaker Francesco Levato is the author of three books of poetry: ELEGY FOR DEAD LANGUAGES; War Rug, a book-length documentary poem; and Marginal State. He has translated into English the books of Italian poets Tiziano Fratus, Creaturing, and Fabiano Alborghetti, The Opposite Shore. His work has been published internationally in journals and anthologies, both in print and online, including Drunken Boat, The Progressive, Versal, and many others. His cinépoetry has been exhibited in galleries and featured at film festivals in Berlin, Chicago, New York, and elsewhere.

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