{"id":18409,"date":"2026-10-13T15:45:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=18409"},"modified":"2026-10-13T15:45:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:45:33","slug":"episode-695-wallis-wilde-menozzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-695-wallis-wilde-menozzi","title":{"rendered":"Episode 695 – Wallis Wilde-Menozzi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 695:
\nWallis Wilde-Menozzi<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Her poetry \u2014 as with most Italian poetry \u2014 is dedicated . . . to addressing all that has previously been written as poetry.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>She’s been on the show to talk about her essays, novel, and memoir, and now Wallis Wilde-Menozzi<\/a> gets to talk about translation! With Emerging from the Winter Sea: Selected Poetry and Prose<\/a> (FSG Poetry), Wallis has translated a career-spanning collection by Antonella Anedda<\/a>. We talk about her love of Anedda’s writing and how it led to their friendship, how Italian poetry addresses past poetry and changes in language, how the island of Sardinia stands in for the “I” in Anedda’s poems, and how Anedda chooses the world over herself (a la Kafka) and how her writing changes over the course of decades. We get into how Wallis tends to lose herself in the voice of the people she translates (which is why she’s resisted requests to be a writer’s official translator), the masked, genderless figure of the Componidori<\/a> and how it corresponds to Anedda’s art-identity, how Anedda shows us reconciling ourselves to suffering and cruelty by associating it with someone else, and how Italian poetry’s ambiguity contrasts with American poetry’s “just the facts, ma’am” vibe. We also discuss These Times and how Wallis’ activism in the ’60s contrasts with today’s clicktivism, the new memoir she’s working on, how personal change can be like the discovery of dark matter, and more. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read Emerging from the Winter Sea<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“Anedda sees language as a historical reality, as something that is part of history, in a dialogue with society.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n