Carmen Gallo Carmen Gallo lives in Naples and teaches at Sapienza University of Rome. She has translated works by Shakespeare, Eliot, Caryl Churchill, and Hannah Sullivan, and has published books of poetry and photo essays. Her latest book of poetry is Procne Machine (Einaudi 2026).

“To reconstruct the animal” | Poetry

Carmen Gallo

To reconstruct the animal from the promises it was capable of keeping. And forget. Not from the bones it left behind but from its tracks retreating. From how it ran. Simple shape. The inner story and the outer. Whoever runs loses. Whoever runs vanishes, taking everything with them. Whoever stays learns to hide. To be nothing. To concoct theories. Nothing happens to those who disappear. Translated from the Italian by...