Francesca Pellegrino

Chernobylove: the Day After the Wind - Selected Poems 2008-2010 (Small Press Distribution) Francesca Pellegrino First edition

Poetry. Selected, edited and translated from the Italian by Adria Bernardi. Bilingual edition. Terse, sharp, introspective, Francesca Pellegrino opens up a feminine perspective on the unspoken moments of modern life, mostly malign.

"Remarkable for a compression of form and the multiplicity of meanings... the poems of Francesca Pellegrino survey and inhabit a terrain that is contemporary Italy?its excesses and its silences, as well as the internal and external pressures, particularly those upon women, of those who live internal lives while actively navigating an external, contemporary world. Each collection reflects... a wider cultural crisis; on one level we can read these poems as externalized versions of today's headlines?the economic and financial crises of Italy and the corruption of its institutions."?Adria Bernardi, from the Translator's Note

"Direct, ironic, ferocious; possessing the terse and flexible musculature of those who practice jiu jitsu."?Alfredo de Palchi

"If you look at each single word, you'll find a flinch in it, a sudden nervous twitch that makes it new and gives it a forcefulness all its own."?Gianmario Lucini

"Francesca Pellegrino's poetry gives voice to the things great-and- small that, even in absentia, delineate existence and its not- always luminous outlines."?Teresa Ferri