Alessandra Bava 

Landscape with Muse
(An Aria)

                           
 To painter Andrew Wyeth
& Helga Testorf

 
Let’s say he
  was candidly smitten.
  As many portraits as Goldberg
  variations. An opalescent, delectable
  gaze, the purest backbone, tresses like
  sparks and mighty, mercurial thighs.
  Your body is a quill. Your body is
  topography. Your body, Helga,
  is a stern Pennsylvanian
    landscape on a  
merry day.

Alessandra Bava lives and works in then Eternal city. She holds an MA in American Literature and manages her own translation agency. In 2010 she had a cathartic encounter with a SF poet laureate and she is currently writing his biography. Her poems have appeared and are forthcoming in several journals such as elimae, Patasola Review, The Anemone Sidecar and Left Curve. Her first bilingual poetry chapbook, GUERRILLA BLUES, has been published in 2012. She is the editor and translator of ROME’S REVOLUTIONARY POETS
BRIGADE (VOLUME 1) Anthology.





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