Book three in the Argument of Time series
Time Out of Joint
Poetry by Teresa Carson
82; $19.00
(Translator) Alessandro Di Mauro
publication: 11.4.2023
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In Book III in The Argument of Time series, Carson explores not only how places of the past are often scripted to elicit specific responses from visitors, but also how the stories we tell about the past are often scripted to fit a particular point of view about a past event.
“This translation contributes to the debate, which Teresa’s lines so beautifully set out, over fascist urban design and self-imagery in post-fascist Italy. I hope that Italian readers will question our relationship to the twentieth and earlier centuries in light of this poet’s feelings about her relationship to both the past in general and to places in and around Rome, which still exert a hold on passersby, including myself, whether or not we are aware of the ways in which their remaking has always been linked to those in power.”
—Alessandro Di Mauro
Endorsed by Norman M. Klein
“What if memories were archived, and the archives were trapped between worlds? The fresh journeys that Teresa Carson’s poems take us through remind me of a pilgrimage into the misremembering of real places that were somehow lost. Very powerful and fresh, scripted spaces in the subjunctive tense, rather like Piranesi revisited. I deeply enjoyed her TIME OUT OF JOINT collection.”
—Norman M. Klein, Critic, urban and media historian, and novelist
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