The Dragonfly

LONG-LISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD!Congratulations to translators Roberta Antognini and Deborah Woodard. “I rhyme classically with a modernity I didn’t suspect in my imbroglios.” — Amelia Rosselli La Libellula (The Dragonfly) is Amelia Rosselli’s acknowledged first major work and contains all the elements of her mature vision: trilingual wordplay, musicality, and political engagement. "This translation by Roberta Antognini and Deborah Woodard magnificently mimics the clotted wordplay and knotted rhymes of Amelia Rosselli’s free verse. They also follow the Surrealist and Symbolist techniques and the incantatory repetitions with which Rosselli investigates religion, love, the self, justice, and injustice. Second-rate Surrealists baffle with unredeemed nonsense. Rosselli, in the hands of her translators, startles with unexpected connections and revealing disconnections." — Judge's Note for the ALTA National Translation Award. With its vertiginous propulsion and rota