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Translated from the French by Brenda Foster

This bilingual collection of photo-poems by Mia Lecomte, translated from Italian  into English by Brenda Porster explores space and belonging, objects and the shadows they cast on heart.

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Language: ‎ English
Paperback: ‎54 pages
ISBN: ‎979-8861073165
Formats: Hardcover | Kindle | International
Price: ₹550 | ₹248 | $13.99

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Mia Lecomte is an Italian poet and writer of French origin. Author of many publications, her poems have been translated into several languages and appear in Italy as well as abroad in magazines and collections.

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A translator from French, Mia Lecomte is especially known as critic and editor in the field of transnational literature, to which she dedicated essays and anthologies. Among others, she is on the editorial board of the anglo-french poetry festival review La traductière and is a contributor to Italian edition of Le Monde Diplomatique. She is the founder and a member of the Compagnia delle poete (www.compagniadellepoete.com) and of Linguafranca (www.linguafrancaonline.org).

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Read about Mia’s project The Compagnia della poete.

Brenda Poster

Brenda Porster was born in Philadelphia and completed her studies in the U.S. before moving to Florence, Italy, where she has lived and worked for most of her life. Her poems, written both in English and Italian, appear in numerous literary magazines, poetry anthologies and online literary sites in Italy and abroad, and have been translated into several languages.

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For some years now she has been the Italian-English translator for Voyages, the Journal of New York University in Florence, and for the Florentine annual poetry festival. She has co-edited and translated three anthologies of contemporary women’s poetry in English and Italian.

Read some of her translation works.