Paula Bohince

Paula Bohince is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Swallows and Waves. She has been a recipient of the Amy Lowell Scholarship for Poets Traveling Abroad and an NEA Fellowship. She is the 2020 John Montague International Poetry Fellow in Ireland.

Translations

Closed Manor

Corrado Govoni  | 
Issue 69.2 Spring 2020

translated from the Italian by Paula Bohince In the Roman countryside I know a manor closed and abandoned from time immemorial, secret and closed off as the heart of a poet who lives in forced solitude. A hedge surrounds it, a wall of bitter boxwood and the shade of a pine forest. […]