The Dimension of Loss

<p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(35 31 32 1)>The Dimension of Loss</em><span style=color: rgba(35 31 32 1)> is an extended and tragic reflection on that inescapable experience evoking the loss of familiar places and of homes lived in and also the loss of hopes of affection of meaning of desire. In two long monologues from Enzo Lamartora's volume </span><em style=color: rgba(35 31 32 1)>It was</em><span style=color: rgba(35 31 32 1)> (published in Italy in 2017) extensively revised by the author and translated by Michael Palma we come to know two women whose family histories of anguish and emptiness have left them with a </span>feeling of loss / that enfolds us that permeates us / like a fog in the darkness of a forest. Shot through with emotional intensity <span style=color: rgba(35 31 32 1)>rich in images both concrete and fantastic that suggest a battle scene viewed through the eyes of a child the poems form what the author describes as the rough draft of a life and a poem that might have been.</span></p>