{"product_id":"9781940953151","title":"Traces of Time","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Mariani has emerged as one of the few significant post-Montalian poets in Italy, and Molino is a graceful, experienced, thoroughly reliable translator. The result is an elegant book, an important book, bringing a distinctive voice into English.\"—Rosanna Warren\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCulled from his entire career, the poems in \u003ci\u003eTraces of Time\u003c\/i\u003e cover numerous themes, most prominently the poet's relationship to history and how poetry can exist outside of it. \"Tiananmen, 20 Years Later,\" \"Protocols of War,\" and \"Checkmate\" (about 9\/11) all illustrate Lucio Mariani's concerns \"through images both dense and porous, lines both cadenced and spasmodic,\" and confirm his place in contemporary poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Protocols of War\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Baghdad is not far)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf this time you'll gather no memories\u003cbr\u003efor your eternal hunger.\u003cbr\u003eCan't you see the slags in the weave\u003cbr\u003ethat enfolds the flesh of the living?\u003cbr\u003eCan't you see that the boxes and drawers\u003cbr\u003ewhere the silver of bygone days abounds\u003cbr\u003ehave no room for trinkets or seashells\u003cbr\u003eof a present founded on plaster markets,\u003cbr\u003elost facing a mirror\u003cbr\u003eseeking itself in the halls of the world?\u003cbr\u003eDon't you see that for the first time\u003cbr\u003eevery man erects ruins for his heirs\u003cbr\u003eenacting inane protocols of war\u003cbr\u003ewhile the future slams its shutters tight\u003cbr\u003eso as to celebrate on statistical altars\u003cbr\u003ethe glory of mindless marionettes\u003cbr\u003emaneuvered by nothingness,\u003cbr\u003esprung in the bitter fields of oblivion?\u003cbr\u003eOf this time you'll gather no memories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLucio Mariani\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of eight volumes of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eEchoes of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e (available in English from UPNE), as well as a volume of essays, a collection of short stories, and translations of works by César Vallejo, Tristan Corbière, and Yves Bonnefoy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthony Molino\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator from the Italian, an anthropologist, and a psychoanalyst. In addition to Lucio Mariani's two volumes, he has also translated works by Valerio Magrelli and Antonio Porta, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Letter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141593743600,"sku":"9781940953151","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781940953151_p0.jpg?v=1763668450","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781940953151","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}