Enrico Testa’s poetry collection Ablativo uses subtraction and distance as its core gestures, tracing the lingering feeling of loss and absence. Its short fragments sharply evoke the sense of something continually slipping away.

Stripped-down language quietly outlines the shape of absence.

Giulio Guidorizzi’s The Companion of the Soul follows ancient Greek ideas of dreams and the soul, reading the imagination that lives between myth and philosophy.

Ancient Greek imagination is traced through the history of ideas around dreams.