Author

Vezzali, Maria Luisa

Italian poet, teacher, and translator (b. 1964, Bologna). She teaches literature in secondary school. Her books include lineamadre (Donzelli, 2007; Anterem/Montano Prize), Tutto questo (puntoacapo, 2018; Don Luigi Di Liegro Prize), and Lo spettro di casa (puntoacapo, 2025). She has translated Adrienne Rich and Lorand Gaspar.

Publications in The Rang Yan Review

Poetry

From Lo spettro di casa (The Ghost of the House) contemporary

Maria Luisa Vezzali

An archive of the unlived emerges through folded images, spectral domestic spaces, and the unstable geometries of memory, where writing becomes an attempt to perceive what escapes the naked eye and resists incorporation into chronological history. Against the contemporary collapse of distance, these poems examine the permeability of the subject under the pressure of technological mediation, historical violence, and material existence, imagining perception itself as a contested terrain in which the boundaries between body and world, observer and observed, continually dissolve.

  • poetry
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