“Ceccagnoli and Stewart have preserved the terseness of her idiom, which aspires, as she says in ‘Annales,’ to the austerity of Latin…Much of the prosodic force of Anedda’s writing comes from the tension that builds between her rhetorical economy and what she calls the ‘dripping’ of modern Italian, a word that, in its benign sense, suggests the viscous, hypersaturated sound of the language and, more darkly, the water and blood that hug its history and coastline.” —Anahid Nersessian, The New York Review of Books
“Antonella Anedda challenges us to confront the mystery that lies at the heart of existence.” —David Cooke, The High Window Press
“These beautiful poems by Antonella Anedda illuminate the correspondences between the flora, fauna and material substance of our mortal, temporal world—birds, bedsheets, constellations, ‘moonlight scratches along the wall’—and the psyche’s dreamscapes. Historiae is precise, inquiring, and urgent, a timely introduction to the work of a major poet of our time.” —Cynthia
“Anedda’s treatment of language and time transcends the typical scope of an historian: her cogent blend of imagery and metaphor, for instance, captures a profound understanding of the relationship between memory, identity, and the written word—a sort of depth that sets her apart from conventional historical perspectives.” — The Cleveland Review of Books
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