Traces of Time

July 14, 2015poetry | pb | 159 pgs5.5" x 8.5" 978-1-940953-14-4 “Traces of Time is a book of insinuating wisdom and delight. The poems are lyric, lucid, and often brief, but they never feel slight because they ponder, on a tangibly human scale, the secrets of existence. . . . There are few books of poems in which I like every poem. This is one of them.”  —Dana Gioia “Lucio Mariani’s Traces of Time indeed traces almost forty years of his work as a lyric poet of sparest, most incisive, means. Following the course of myth, history, and the city of Rome that sustains him, Mariani reveals the frailty of our understanding and the paradoxes of our desires, aware that the poet’s task is to find a form in which what is cherished can endure. The interlocutors of Mariani’s poems are those who need them: his loves and enemies, his friends and strangers, and, most of all, his descendants—his readers, now and in the future.”—Susan Stewart Lucio Mariani is one of Italy’s most widely translated contem