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Mia Lecomte is an Italian poet and writer of French origin. Among her most recent publications are: the poetry collection Al museo delle relazioni interrotte (2016); the short stories collection Cronache da un’impossibilità (2015); and the children’s book Gli Spaesati (2020). Her poems have been published in Italy and abroad in poetry magazines and anthologies, and in 2012 she published in Canada the bilingual poetry anthology For the Maintenance of Landscape.
Also a French translator, she is a critic and editor in the field of transnational literature, especially in regards to poetry, to which she dedicated the essay Di un poetico altrove. Poesia transnazionale italofona (1960-2016) (2018). She is on the editorial board of the bi-annual journal of comparative poetry Semicerchio and she is a contributor to Italian edition of Le Monde Diplomatique. She is the creator and a member of the International ‘Company of Women Poets’ (www.compagniadellepoete.com), and in 2017 she founded the Transnational Literary Agency Linguafranca (www.linguafrancaonline.org).
MÉNAGE
Cleaning the universe
can last a whole day
the morning for moving
the afternoon taking advantage of the void
and the evening the evening the evening
after one day nothing will be the same
that certain day
IKEA
Beds wardrobes bookcases sofas
shelves chairs desks
lamps fabrics cushions
pots curtains carpets
plates vases glasses
toys cutlery
screws bolts
snaps
nails
instructions
you don’t find what will be left
of you after all this living
what will be left to live
(translation from Italian by Brenda Porster)
(from the collection For the Maintenance of Landscape, Toronto, Guernica, 2012)
