KILLING THE MOONLIGHT
Forthcoming from the Modernist Latitudes Series of Columbia University Press Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice shifts the gaze of modernist studies from the rising urban centers of Paris and New York to their shadow at the edge of Europe: Venice, an early modern cosmopolis whose apparent resistance to modernization renders it a haunt for [...]
THING ODE/ODE OGGETTUALE
A bilingual chapbook translated into Italian by Jennifer Scappettone in conversation with Marco Giovenale (La Camera Verde: Collana Felix, 2008) “Her reading…was an infusion of a flood of words intermingling across curved lines of vowels and consonants moving on their own, according to their own laws of nature. And the nature of these words today…is [...]
LOCOMOTRIX
Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli. Edited and translated by Jennifer Scappettone. Published by the University of Chicago Press, Spring 2012. Winner of the Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize for 2012. “In the landscape of twentieth-century Italian writing, Amelia Rosselli’s poems stand out as a unique achievement, cultivating oblique, discontinuous forms that mix [...]
FROM DAME QUICKLY
Litmus Press, 2009 Cover artwork by Rosemarie Fiore “The work here is social sculpture at its most intense: ciphering the din of public immediacy through the person of the disjointed subject only to feed out the information stream as a critique of participation, colored by the guilt of subjectivity.” —Michael Cross, “Social Character and Social [...]
BELLADONNA ELDERS SERIES #5
#5 of the Elders Series for Belladonna Books, 2009: Poetry, Landscape, Apocalypse. Featuring a preface and pop-up pastorals by Jennifer Scappettone and new writing by Etel Adnan and Lyn Hejinian. “Here is a task of poetry: to sense the terrain in a city that has done its utmost to balk at the limits and curvatures [...]
ERR-RESIDENCE
Bronze Skull, 2007 Cover artwork by Roberto Harrison “among the many delights to be found here, the sudden appearance of the neologism ‘hackquiescent.’ Look out, OED.” —Aldon Nielsen, at HeatStrings
AUFGABE 7
F Feature section on contemporary Italian poetry guest-edited by Jennifer Scappettone, 2008 Featuring critical preface and poetry and prose in translation by Amelia Rosselli, Nanni Cagnone, Milli Graffi, Giuliano Mesa, Marco Giovenale, and Giovanna Frene (trans. Jennifer Scappettone); and poetry in translation by Emilio Villa (trans. Pasquale Verdicchio), Andrea Zanzotto (trans. Patrick Barron), Maria Attanasio [...]
THING ODE/ODE OGGETTUALE
A bilingual chapbook translated into Italian by Jennifer Scappettone in conversation with Marco Giovenale (La Camera Verde: Collana Felix, 2008) “Her reading…was an infusion of a flood of words intermingling across curved lines of vowels and consonants moving on their own, according to their own laws of nature. And the nature of these words today…is [...]
BEAUTY [IS THE NEW ABSURDITY]
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Dusie Chapbook Kollectiv Series, 2007 “‘Not to confine the page to the certainty of certain place, but to haul it alas through transitions successful or non, through transit’ —Jennifer Scappettone, from Beauty [Is the New Absurdity] “Vast territories, however we define them, are undeniably being navigated, and their languages translated. Scappettone’s line suggests meaning is [...]