Daniela Cascella
- Chimeras
September 2022
Sublunary Editions, Seattle
Chimeras is a book concerned with silences, the unspoken undercurrents of untranslated texts. Prompted by the author's encounters with the lesser-known prose by the Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-72), and with the essays and letters by the Italian writer and translator Cristina Campo (1923-77), Cascella finds her voice in the uneasy space where there seems to be little to say because there is too much that is difficult to articulate; and she asks what happens in writing before translation, what faint signals may be heard, and how to transmit them.
https://sublunaryeditions.com/products/chimeras-daniela-cascella - Nothing As We Need It
June 2022
Punctum Books / Risking Education, Earth, Milky Way
Nothing As We Need It imagines and writes a composite and impure form of criticism that embodies the writing of research as recursive, entangled, and many-voiced. Shaped by encounters with literature not translated in English, by the polyphonies, artifices, and concealments of a bilingual self, and by the sense of speechlessness and haunting when writing of works that cannot be instantly quoted, this book's subtitle derives from the mythological Chimera: a monstrous creature made of three different parts, impossible in theory but real in the imagination and in the reading of the myth.
https://punctumbooks.com/titles/nothing-as-we-need-it/ - Singed. Muted Voice-Transmissions, After The Fire
November 2017
Equus Press, London
Singed articulates a language in trance-lation across different states of speechlessness. A fire, and the effort to remember a lost song, open into a meditation on the transmission of knowledge. The space of writing appears as a material engagement with language which points at its excess; at the ephemeral and the untold which continue to puzzle and enchant, and prompt more writing.
https://equuspress.wordpress.com/singed/ - F.M.R.L. Footnotes, Mirages, Refrains and Leftovers of Writing Sound
April 2015
Zer0 Books, London
F.M.R.L. is a collection of short texts, fragments and deranged essays. It claims the complexity and intermittent incoherence in listening and reading, and works with their residual aspects addressing canons, issues of authenticity and fabulation, degrees of opacity and transparency across languages and cultures.
www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/f-m-r-l - En Abîme: Listening, Reading, Writing. An Archival Fiction
September 2012
Zer0 Books, London
In En Abîme, listening and reading operate as creative and critical activities driven by memory and return, reshaped into the present. The book introduces an idea of aural landscape as a historically defined cultural experience and adopts listening as an expansive approach across poetry, visual art and literature
www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/en-abme-listening-reading-writing-an-archival-fiction
I see my books as chapters of one book, as manifested in this performative reading I did in 2018, across my first three publications, at LCC / University of the Arts London:
https://replay.arts.ac.uk/video/5ada02493362d964328b456d
- The Edge of the World
2008
Arcana Edizioni, Rome, Italy
A commentary on the song lyrics by Robert Smith, drawing on literature, poetry, art and cultural studies.
Written in Italian - Scultori di suono (Sculptors of Sound)
2005, reprinted in November 2008
Edizioni Tuttle, Camucia (AR), Italy
A survey of recent developments in experimental music and its intersections with the visual arts.
Written in Italian