Author(s)

Elio Pagliarani

Patrick Rumble (translator and editor)

Description

Among the poems that result from Pagliarani's "words of iron" is THE GIRL CARLA, a narrative poem whose protagonist is a seventeen-year-old aspiring secretary who comes of age against the "sheet metal" landscape of a Milan emerging from the catastrophe of fascism and war, a city whose "steel sky feigns no Eden and concedes no bewilderment." In telling her story, the poem documents the social and ideological forces required to make "mammiferous larvae" into girls and boys.

ISBN 978-0-9816330-2-2