Franca Mancinelli discusses her new book, The Butterfly Cemetery, a bilingual collection of autobiographical narratives and personal essays that will soon appear from The Bitter Oleander Press with the work's translator and poet, John Taylor. Includes generous bilingual readings

Franca Mancinelli is one of the most original poets to have emerged in Italy during the past fifteen years. In English, her prose poems are available in The Little Book of Passage (The Bitter Oleander Press, 2018) and her verse poetry in At an Hour’s Sleep from Here (The Bitter Oleander Press, 2019), both books translated by John Taylor.