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Conversation / No History of Two Languages Is Mine – Historia De Duas Limbas Nulla Est Mia
To mark the recent release of the Collected Poems by Italian writer Antonella Anedda (Tutte le poesie, Garzanti, 2023), winner of the Umberto Saba Prize 2024, the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago and the Department of French and Italian at Northwestern University, present a conversation with Antonella Anedda and her translator, Patrizio Ceccagnoli, moderated by Massimiliano Delfino. The event will begin with a bilingual poetry reading of the author’s work, followed by a round table discussion on poetry, languages, and translation.
For Antonella Anedda, poetry coincides with a passion for existence and for a solitude that does not prevent us from seeing the light of things, from singing the miracle of things, from listening without subtracting the noise of the world. Long accepted in the literary canon of our time, Anedda knows how to combine the characters of a poetry that is more expressive, with one more refined and analytical. The collection Tutte le Poesie, which brings together for the first time her entire canon, partly revisited for the occasion, confirms the authority of her poetic voice and outlines the unmistakable trajectory of an always original, often surprising writing.
