Rose Facchini

Rose Facchini is a Lecturer in Italian at Tufts University, the Editor and Italian Translator Editor for the International Poetry Review, and a Contributing Editor for the Journal of the History of Ideas. Her translations have either appeared or are forthcoming in numerous journals and with various publishing houses, the most notable including Asymptote’s Translation Tuesdays, ergot., Exacting Clam, Heimat Review, International Poetry Review, Snuggly Books, and West Branch. https://linktr.ee/rose_facchini

I SEE THE BEAUTY by Diego Lama, Translated from Italian by Rose Facchini

Behind the dune of plastics, hidden among the clumps of charred O-Rings and heaps of shapeless garbage, there is a large tank. In the tank are cockroaches. Every day, I climb onto the metal cover and contemplate the gray dawn that creeps through the hills of waste. Then I defecate inside the tank through the top hatch. Every day, my feces nourish thousands of hungry cockroaches. In the morning, I take my net and fish. The smell of the tank does not bother me. On the contrary. Sometimes I climb inside and catch the biggest cockroaches that hide at the…

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