Franca Mancinelli
The Italian poet Franca Mancinelli was born in 1981. Her first two collections of verse poetry, Mala kruna (2007) and Pasta madre (2013), were awarded several prizes in Italy and later translated by John Taylor as At an Hour’s Sleep from Here (Bitter Oleander Press, 2019). In 2018 appeared her collection of prose poems, Libretto di transito, also translated by John Taylor for the Bitter Oleander Press as The Little Book of Passage.