Description
Book III in The Argument of Time series looks at spaces that can be scripted and stories rewritten to overlook the complexity of reality.
“This translation contributes to the debate, which Teresa’s lines so beautifully set out, over fascist urban design and self-imagery in post-fascist Italy. I hope that Italian readers will question our relationship to the twentieth and earlier centuries in light of this poet’s feelings about her relationship to both the past in general and to places in and around Rome, which still exert a hold on passersby, including myself, whether or not we are aware of the ways in which their remaking has always been linked to those in power.”
—Alessandro Di Mauro
Poetry.
“What if memories were archived, and the archives were trapped between worlds? The fresh journeys that Teresa Carson’s poems take us through remind me of a pilgrimage into the misremembering of real places that were somehow lost. Very powerful and fresh, scripted spaces in the subjunctive tense, rather like Piranesi revisited. I deeply enjoyed her TIME OUT OF JOINT collection.”
—Norman M. Klein, Critic, urban and media historian, and novelist
Author Bio
Teresa Carson's work centers on the themes of time, memory, and the stories we humans tell.
She holds an MFA in Poetry and an MFA in Theatre, both from Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of five collections of poetry: Elegy for a Floater (CavanKerry Press, 2008); My Crooked House (CavanKerry Press, 2014), which was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize; The Congress of Human Oddities (Deerbrook Editions, 2015); VISIT TO AN EXTINCT CITY (Deerbrook Editions, 2021); and METAMORPHOSES, BOOK XVI (Deerbrook Editions, 2022).
She lives in Florida, where so co-curates two programs aimed at fostering cross-disciplinary collaborations and putting art into public settings: The Unbroken Thread[s] Project and Art in Common Places.
Author City: SARASOTA, FL USA
Alessandro Di Mauro's lifelong passion for foreign languages has led him not only to teach, for more than a decade, his native Italian to speakers of other languages but also to achieve a high level of proficiency in English and French. He holds a law degree from his hometown institution, Catania University, and has also studied at Université Catholique de Louvain. In addition, he earned a master's degree in international relations from the University of Kent. In 2011, Alessandro completed a course of study, through Siena University, in teaching Italian as a second language. In his weekly podcast, Italiano Standard, he enthusiastically helps students develop their Italian skills. His translating projects include (with co- translator John F. Coates) an Italian-to-English translation of Carmelo Asaro's novel Land Rediscovered (Entasis Press, 2015) and English-to-Italian translations of poet Teresa Carson's Argument of Time series.
Author City: Rome ITA