{"product_id":"slashing-sounds-a-bilingual-edition-paperback","title":"Slashing Sounds: A Bilingual Edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJolanda Insana\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCatherine Theis\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first collection of Italian poet Jolanda Insana's work to be published in English, featuring transgressive poems that evidence the power of language.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jolanda Insana's \u003ci\u003eSlashing Sounds\u003c\/i\u003e uses invectives, fragments, epigrams, and epigraphs to construct poems that pulse with the texture of an idiosyncratic Sicilian dialect. The poems in this collection are ferocious, irreverent, strange, snarky, and otherworldly. Insana's commitment to contentiousness, her brutal and skeptical eye, and her preoccupation with language make Insana's poetry particularly arresting. For Insana, there is no subject more worthy of our interest than language's misfires and contradictory impulses--language being the ultimate arrow, forging a direction in the world and forcing a turn toward whatever reality appears in front of you. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The first book-length collection of Insana's poetry published in English, \u003ci\u003eSlashing Sounds\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful offering that addresses a lack of female Italian voices in Anglophone poetry publishing. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJolanda Insana \u003c\/b\u003e(b. 1937, Messina, Italy; d. 2016, Rome) is the author of several volumes of poetry, beginning with \u003ci\u003eSciarra amara\u003c\/i\u003e in 1977. In addition to writing poetry and teaching classics to high school students, Insana was also a prolific translator of Greek and Latin, including works by Sappho, Euripides, and Martial. Insana won the Viareggio Prize for poetry for \u003ci\u003eLa Stortura\u003c\/i\u003e in 2002 and the Premio Pascoli Prize in 2009. \u003cb\u003eCatherine Theis\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eThe Fraud of Good Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e and the play \u003ci\u003eMEDEA\u003c\/i\u003e, an adaptation of the Euripides story. She teaches at the University of Southern California. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 9.4 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 17, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47457062191282,"sku":"9780226835747","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/bea5d6427c8a61c28542db36f3622137.webp?v=1778875956","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/slashing-sounds-a-bilingual-edition-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}