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No Bridges at the Estuary: Giorgia Meriggi in Dialogue with Poet Franca Mancinelli and Translator John Taylor
This dialogue originated from my reading in August 2024 of Franca Mancinelli’s The Butterfly Cemetery, translated by John Taylor. Every day I put Franca’s collection of essays and narratives in my backpack and set off on long hikes in the high mountains.
A Pervasive Method: on John Taylor’s Approach in Translating Franca Mancinelli’s “All the Eyes that I Have Opened”
Taylor’s translation appears to be a systematic operation—in other words—oriented by his acknowledgment of a philosophically (as well as poetically) coherent nucleus in “All the Eyes that I Have Opened,” a collection that constitutes one of the most interesting releases of recent contemporary Italian poetry.