Field Recordings

The Wall Did Not Answer ---Alfonso Gatto's Selected Poems are a Marvel to visit. This review could easily turn into a wiki-biographical-critical history of the Italian Resistance Poet, but it isn't, mostly because I'm going to assume that dear reader, you, probably have no idea who Gatto is, or even care less about Italian Resistance Poetry.  Not that you aren't interested, or turned off by the idea, but that it is this reader's opinion that taking his work out of context is just as powerful of a experience as reading them in context, and it is in fact a testament to his powers to read them out of context and find yourself moved. And for those of you who like to travel and tramp comfortably about the world, Gatto's poems put you spiritually in the heart of Italy, and emotionally at the center of love. Who wouldn't turn down a romantic night, blossoming with love, wine, and the moon round and plump? Even with danger lurking in the alley, or perhaps e...