Ritorno — Return

Translation of an Italian poem by Giorgio Caproni

Translated by Jessica Lane

Volume One, Issue One, “Atmosphere,” Poetry Translation

Ritorno

Sono tornato là

dove non ero mai stato.

Nulla, da come non fu, è mutato.

Sul tavolo (sull’incerato

a quadretti) ammezzato

ho ritrovato il bicchiere

mai riempito. Tutto

è ancora rimasto quale

mai l’avevo lasciato.

 

Return 

I went back there

where I have never been.

Nothing, as it never was, has changed.

On the table (on the waxed

squares) half-formed

I found the glass

never filled. Everything

still, just as I

never left it. 

 

Jessica Lane graduated from Kenyon College in 2020 and majored in Art History and Italian. She spent her Junior year living abroad in Italy, and worked as an intern at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy.