“Translating poetry is not an arid academic and philological exercise on the grammatical and syntactical complications of language. Translating poetry means striving to understand it; it almost means reliving it. All you need (but it is indispensable) is to have a common denominator with the poet on man’s position on life.” Joyce Lussu

For the first time, and for a poem I have “relived”, as the poet rightly states, please find here the recording of both the English and Italian versions of the poem.