Delirious Verse
Andrea di Serego Alighieri trans., Amelia Rosselli, Phil Baber trans.
Delirious Verse presents the first English translation of a talk given by the Italian poet Amelia Rosselli in the early 1980s, in which she read aloud from and expanded upon her seminal essay “Metrical Spaces.” Drawing on intensive literary and musical studies, and shaped by her trilingual upbringing as a refugee from fascist Italy, Rosselli conceptualizes a new kind of poetic form: a graphic-prosodic “time-space” capable of containing “all possible imaginable rhythms.”
The book includes a new translation of “Metrical Spaces” by Jennifer Scappettone and an afterword by Andrea di Serego Alighieri.
Edited and translated by Andrea di Serego Alighieri and Phil Baber.
Published in 2025 ┊ 68 pages ┊ Paperback ┊ Language: English
