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Rome\u2019s harbor town, Ostia Antica, the other well-preserved ancient city in Italy, has long paled beside Pompeii, whose high drama and fiery demise fixed its place in literature and the popular imagination. Not so for the port city on the Tiber. But Teresa Carson\u2019s new Ostian poem comes to us in sixteen cantos, in English and Italian, as welcome as it is rare.<\/p>\n
She takes us with her, on a revelatory first visit to the site, preternaturally attuned to all its discomforts and discoveries. Immediately we\u2019re immersed with her amidst a haunted, antique landscape.<\/p>\n
Step after step through this long afternoon of a poem, Carson works her alchemy\u2014from broken bricks and crumbling concrete, intently observed\u2014to meditations on the synecdoche of ruins, to contemplations, through her eyes, of loss and decay, on human mortality and the accidents of survival: \u2018Layers of dirt turn into layers of time.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Visit to an Extinct City<\/i>\u00a0holds a fresh, personal lens to a seldom-seen, venerable ghost-town and archaeological site. It casts a rueful glance at the folly and profundity of \u2018historical reconstruction\u2019\u2014it raises an eyebrow towards guidebooks, tourism and what we think we do when we travel abroad\u2014and with both hands, unexpectedly, it bestows us with a kind of metaphysical\u00a0vademecum.<\/i><\/p>\n\u2014Joanne M. Spurza, Associate Professor, Program of Classics, Hunter College of the City University of New York<\/p>\n
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