Author

Piccolo, Pina

Italian American poet, translator, and cultural worker. Born in California and educated at the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. in Italian literature), she moved to Italy in 2003. She is a co-founder of La Macchina Sognante and editor of The Dreaming Machine. Her poetry collection I canti dell’Interregno was published in 2018.

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.

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Poetry

From Amigdala contemporary

Riccardo Frolloni

Memory here behaves like a house with a hidden fracture: public images, family rituals, half-spoken warnings, and the stench of decaying money return as fragments of a past that refuses to remain past. Moving between the absurdity of television spectacle and the claustrophobic intimacy of inherited secrets, these texts trace how fear enters the body, reshapes perception, and becomes almost indistinguishable from ordinary life, leaving behind a haunting question about what we carry without knowing and what, even when unearthed, can never be made whole again.

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From In the Mouth of Language contemporary

Guido Cavalli

Before meaning, there is the void: breath, phoneme, the blind materiality of sound from which both language and the speaking subject precariously emerge. Moving through prelinguistic memory, the corporeal genesis of the word, and the constitutive encounter between “I” and “you,” these texts dismantle the fantasy of language as a transparent instrument of sovereign consciousness, revealing it instead as a generative process in which bodies, identities, and worlds take shape through an endless, unfinished negotiation between sound and sense.

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