flight

For a God who laughs like a child,

So much raucous sparrow chatter,

So many dances in branches,

A soul becomes weightless,

The grasslands have such a softness,

Such chasteness revives in the eyes,

Hands like leaves

Are spellbound in the air...

Who is frightened now, who judges?

Weightless

Giuseppe Ungaretti, 1934

from Selected Poems, Bilingual Edition

translated by Andrew Frisardi

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It was Merisi who first suggested Italian poet, Giuseppe Ungaretti,

so I borrowed his book of selected poems from my library last year.
The brilliant translation from the Italian to English in this bilingual

edition has marvelously preserved much of the delicacy and mystery

of Ungaretti's poetry. Which reminds me, I've got to find myself a

copy for my own little library.

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