Description
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian, and with an introduction by Adria Bernardi. CHRONIC HEARING contains selections from seven collections. Annino writes poems of intense sensitivity, keen observation and feminine intuition touching on dark themes.
"It's this poet's lot in life to hear too well, too keenly, too precisely—to hear amplified what others hear at lower, livable decibels, to hear what is for others, perhaps, not audible at all—it is her lot in life to hear a sound—a hiss, for example, in a kind of shape, with an acoustic dimension—a hallway, for example, with its own measurable level of intensity, and to link it to its source—a cat, for example."—Translator Adria Bernardi, from the Introduction
"The first reading keeps us on the page as if it's magnetized..."—Nadia Augustoni
"Unconstrained by the desire to theorize a message, Cristina Annino allows the content of her poems to simply blossom, free. And it is precisely in these moments that an elegiac and philosophic tone emerges, entrusted to key verses that have a sudden, surprise effect, like when one takes a breath after a period of apnea. This is the author's striking intuition that grants the reader her sharp and unforgettable observations in verse, from which all the rest becomes illuminated, making Annino one of the preeminent and most contemporary Italian poets."—Allesandro Polcri
Author Bio
Artist, poetess, short-story teller and one-time novelist, Cristina Annino (nèe Fratini) was born in Arezzo, Italy, studied at the University of Florence and wrote her dissertation on the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. Having begun to write poetry in childhood, she gravitated toward avant-garde circles in the 1960s, such as Gruppo '70, and lived and studied in Spain. Her first collection of poetry, Non me lo dire, non posso crederci / Don't tell me, I can't believe it, was published in 1969 with a preface by Eugenio Miccini. Her next, published in 1977, was Ritratto di un Amico Paziente / Portrait of a Friend Patient. The third, L'Udito Cronico / Chronic Hearing, lends its title to the present volume, which contains selections from seven collections. Madrid won the Premio di Poesia Pozzale Luigi Russo in 1988; Magnificat won the Premio Lorenzo Montano in 2010. Her most recent volume of poetry, Chanson Turca, was published in 2012. She lives and works in Rome.
Author City: ROME ITA