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TRANSPARENCIES is the visceral and surreal English-language debut of one of Italy’s most promising younger poets.

Brimming with windows, screens, and high-rise glass, Maria Borio’s first English-language collection confronts the interpersonal crises of contemporary lives caught between two worlds—one ancient and abiding, the other rapid, digital, and increasingly diverse. Translator Danielle Pieratti captures the dissonance of Borio’s sharp lyricism and clipped rhythms, creating a contemporary English-language poetry that preserves the poet’s engagement with Italian modernisms. First published by World Poetry Books in 2022, this re-designed second edition (2025) includes a new Translator's Note by Pieratti.

Poet and essayist Maria Borio is the author of two collections of poems, Trasparenza and L'altro limite, a Spanish translation of which was published in Argentina, and several chapbooks. Her latest book of nonfiction is Poetiche e persone. In 2024, her collaboration with Tom Schulz, Briefe aus der Roten Wueste / Lettere dal deserto rosso, translated by Pia-Elizabeth Leuschner and Paola Del Zoppo, was released in Germany by Gutleut Verlag. She is the editor and co-translator (with Jacob Blakesley) of Fifty-five poems by Emily Dickinson, selected by Jorie Graham and published by Crocetti Editore in 2025. She is the poetry editor of Nuovi Argomenti, founder of poesiaeuropa (an international summer school).

Danielle Pieratti is the author of Approximate Body and Fugitives, which won the Idaho Prize and the Connecticut Book Award. Her work has appeared in journals such as Boston Review, AGNI, Words Without Borders, and The Paris Review. She holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia University and studied translation at the University of Connecticut, where she was a 2024-2025 Humanities Institute Dissertation Fellow. She currently serves as poetry editor for the international literary journal Asymptote. TRANSPARENCIES is her first book of translation.