Barbara Carle is a French-American poet, critic, translator and Italianist. She is Professor Emerita of ItalianProfessor Emerita of Italian at California State University Sacramento.
Writing Carle has published several books of poetry in the U.S. and Italy. Most of her books are bilingual (English/Italian). She has also translated books of poetry by contemporary Italian poets, such as Rodolfo Di Biasio, Gianfranco Palmery, Alfredo di Palchi, Marco Vitale.Marco Vitale She authored numerous articles on Italian and French poetry, and prefaced various volumes of translation. Her work appeared in various European anthologies.Antologia poetica internazionale, Luoghi d'europa a cura di Lino Angiuli e Diana Battaggia, Milano, La Vita Felice, 2015, 58-59;Dall'alto del Gianicolo vedo i castelli romani, Poeti a Frascati 1959–2006 A cura di Domenico Adriano e Arnaldo Colasanti, Crocetti Editore, Milano, 2007; 56-57, 171-172; Le strade della poesia, Poesia dell'aria – Catalogo a cura di Domenico Cipriano, Delta3, 2013, Italy;34; Bicicletterario 2015, Parole in Bicicletta, Caramanica Editore;12-13; Poesia, Mensile internazionale di cultura poetica, Anno XXVIII Dicembre 2015, N 310; 55-56
Biography Born to American and French parents in Peshawar, Pakistan, Carle spent most her childhood and adolescence abroad (Pakistan, Colombia, India, Bangladesh, Iran, Thailand, Libya, France, Italy) as she grew up in a diplomatic family. She obtained a doctorate in Italian Literature with specializations in French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York City in 1988. Her dissertation was on Giuseppe Ungaretti and Paul Valéry.
Creative works Veemenze, Marietti1820, Bologna, November 2024, 198 pp., Preface Viaggio nell'interno by Paolo Valesio Paolo Valesio, p. 9-19.
Vestigia, Poesie in italiano e inglese, Caramanica Editore, March 2023,152 pp.
Touching What Remains/Toccare quello che resta, Poesie in inglese e in italiano, Seconda edizione, Ghenomena Poesia 9, 2021, 150 pp., with an updated postface by Domenico Adriano.See Marco Vitale's review, "Enigmi e rammendi, La poesia angloitaliana di Barbara Carle", succedeoggi, cultura nell'informazione quodidiana, 31 agosto, 2021
Sulle orme di Circe Incontri a Formia Ghenomena Edizioni,Ghenomena Edizioni May 2016."C’è in Barbara Carle la felicità nel ritrovare di anno in anno una “patria” poetica e affettiva di elezione, nell’approfondirne la stratificata conoscenza. [...] Così le rovine si stagliano come da un ottocentesco carnet de voyage, si fanno emblema del tempo e della vanità delle cose di questo mondo, della loro peritura bellezza. E hanno ancora la facoltà di rivelare, a pato di saperne fare un fortiniano “buon uso”: “Gli archi del Cisternone mi aprono/la chiave della parola ἀρχή -- di essa/sono maestose traduzioni arche-/ologiche, anelli delle origini/e dell’autorità. Si riposano/ sui pilastri raddolciti dal ripetersi/delle curve degli archi e delle/volte creando linee armoniose/e fluide nelle navate della/ basilica sommersa riversata/per la sua chiara basileia di acqua.” Marco Vitale, Sulle orme di Circe in Poesia 337, Anno XXXI, Maggio 2018: 78-79
Tangible Remains/Toccare quello che resta Ghenomena Edizioni, May 2009.
New Life/ Nuova vita, Gradiva Publications, SUNY at Stony Brook, New York, May 2006 (Poetry and prose). This book was selected in the Recommended Reading section in Chelsea 82/83 2007 : 292–293.
Don't Waste My Beauty/ Non guastare la mia bellezza (bilingual collection of Poetry), Caramanica (Italy), July 2006, National Frascati Prize, Foreign Section “Italo Alighiero Chiusano,” 2000, pp. 104.
About Vestigia (Caramanica, 2023)
This bilingual book includes a selection of poems published in various American and Italian literary journals between 1983 and 2022. Some poems are in Italian only. All bilingual poems result from continuous rewriting of English and Italian versions: there is no original nor dominant language in this process. Section II, entitled Shipwreck-Naufragio includes a long narrative poem Voices of the Northener 1860 (originally published in Journal of Italian Translation, 2014). It was also published as an art book with engravings by André Beuchat, Atelier Alma Charta, Parma, 2019.
About Touching What Remains/Toccare quello che resta (Ghenomena, 2021)
This new edition of Tangible Remains/Toccare quello che resta (2009) includes a revised selection of the original sequence. Most of the poems have been rewritten in both languages. The book is entirely reorganized. It includes new poems (such as "Window I/Finestra I", "Clepsydra"/"La clessidra"). Seven poems from the first edition have been excluded from this new collection. However, they have been moved to the Appendix, which also includes a new poem entitled "The Rag"/"Lo straccio".This eighth poem was published for the first time in Don't Waste my Beauty/ Non guastare la mia bellezza, Caramanica 2006. The Italian version by the author is published for the first time in this edition. It was previously translated by Domenico Adriano
Art books La ladra, poem with one original engraving by André Beuchat,André Beuchat I quaderni della notte, 9, Atelier Alma Charta, Parma, 2020.
Voices from the Northerner,Voices from the Northerner with original etchings by André Beuchat, Atelier Alma Charta],Atelier Alma Charta Parma, Italia, 2019.
Gattizie,Gattizie with one original etching by the author and five new poems in French, Italian, and English. Cover etching and book fabrication by Luciano Ragozzino, Il ragazzo innocuo Press, Milan (Italy), November, 2018.
Chi può dirtelo amore Tutto il segno Can anyone find words my love to express the sign, by Marco Vitale and B. Carle, with an original etching by André Beuchat, L’Atelier ALMA CHARTA, Toccalmatto, Italy, February, 2018 (limited edition).
Short selection of poems published in journals and anthologies "L'aquilone dalla coda di neve" (Stampa su alluminio), Sentinella a che punto è la notte? un'opera di opere,Sentinella a che punto è la notte? un'opera di opere alla chiara fonte, Fondazione MAGIS, Lugano, 2023, p. 40.
"Invettiva mancata, Piccolo omaggio a Dante Alighieri / Failed Invective, A Little Homage to Dante Alighieri" in Pianeta Poesia, Accademia Mondiale della Poesia,Accademia Mondiale della Poesia numero 3, marzo, 2021: 6–7.
"La ladra", "Still LIfe with Teapot", "Il bricco avventuriero", "Elevata tra due cerchi", Gradiva, International Journal of Italian Poetry,Gradiva, International Journal of Italian Poetry Number 58, Fall 2020: 21–24
"Dicesi amore", poesie di Barbara Carle, New Poems, Incroci,Incroci Fall, 2020, semestrale di letteratura e altre scritture anno XXI, numero 41 gennaio-giugno 2020: 7–14.
“L'ultimo nume verde”, ””, edited by Flavia Pankiewicz, Luoghi Interiori, Città di Castello, 2020.
“Il mare bianco, The White Sea” in Maremare, Antologia Poetica Mediterranea, Anthology of Mediterranean Poets, Ed. by Lino Angiuli, Maria Rosaria Cesareo, Milica Marinkovic’, Adda Editore, June, 2017, pp. 116–117.
“Gli spazzini di Roma” in Novecento non più – Verso il realismo terminale, anthology of poetry, ed. by Salvatore Contessini and Diana Battaggia, with Introduction by Guido Oldani, La Vita Felice, Milano, November 2016, p. 81.
“Lorenzo Lotto: L’annunciata di Recanati,” “Cortilofilia 3” in “Sulla diaspora della poesia italiana,” PoesiaPoesia 310, December, 2015, International Monthly Magazine of Poetry, Milano, Italy: 55–56.
“The Pharos of Dover/ Il faro di Dover” in Luoghi d’Europa Antologia poetica internazionale, ed. by Lino Angiuli, Diana Battaggia, La Vita Felice, 2015: 58–63.
“I. Bici II. Vélo Love” in Parole in Bicicletta, Bicicletterario 2015, Caramanica, Italy, 2015: 12–13.
“Voices From the Northerner 1860/ Voci dalla Northerner 1860,” Narrative Poem in English and in Italian with an introduction, Journal of Italian Translation, Vol. IX, Numbers 1 & 2, Spring and Fall, 2014: 152–171
“Dialogue at the Cestian Field in Rome/ Dialogo al campo Cestio di Roma,” Italian Poetry Review, 2013, VIII (Publication: October 2014) (a peer-reviewed multilingual journal of creative writing and criticism, New York City): 132–137.
“The Grains of Sand,” Chelsea 72 (New York City, September 2002):125, “Your Shell Which Wakes,” Chelsea 72: 126 “Downpour Over the Forest,” Chelsea 72: 127 “During My Bengali Adolescence,” Chelsea 72: 128 “Love Keeps Disquieting Me,” Chelsea 72: 129, “Unmake the Silence,” Chelsea 72:130, “They Breathe, They Listen,” Chelsea 72:131
“Pencil,” Connecticut River Review, Vol. 12/1 (The Connecticut Poetry Society, Fall/Winter 1990): 13.
Interviews with Carle on her creative works Erinda Islami intervista Barbara Carle, Insula europea, September, 2017 Erinda Islami intervista Barbara Carle
Video Interview by Federica Velonà, Rai Letteratura, June, 2017
Interview by Marco Vitale with Barbara Carle on Sulle orme di Circe on Insula europea Website (sponsored by the University of Perugia) Sulle orme di Circe. Marco Vitale intervista Barbara Carle
Anthologies and translations with critical introductions Poesie vegetali Green Poems by Lino Angiuli. Introductory notes by Loredana Capone and Maria Rosaria Cesareo. Translator's preface and translation by Barbara Carle. Poems selected by Maria Rosaria Cesareo and Barbara Carle. Consiglio regionale della Puglia, Edizioni di Pagina, Bari, 2021.
Emblems of Sleep and Other Poems, by Marco Vitale, Gradiva PublicationsVideo presentation with Marco Vitale, 2020
Tra il cielo e la terra/ Between Heaven and Earth: Poesie in cinese classico, inglese e italiano/ Poems in the Classical Chinese, English and Italian, Trilingual Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry (with Curtis Dean Smith), La Vita FeliceLa Vita Felice Milano, June 2017, pp. 220. Second revised edition, June 2019Reviewed in World Literature Today, Nota Bene, Vol. 91, November, 2017 and in Metamorphoses The Journal of the five college faculty seminar on literary translation, Amherst/Northampton, Massachusetts, Volume 26, Issues 1-2, Spring/Fall 2018: 228-233]
November, by Domenico Cipriano with critical introduction, Gradiva Publications, Stony Brook, New York, 2015.
Garden of Delights, Selected Poems by Gianfranco Palmery, with a critical introduction, Gradiva Publications, SUNY at Stony Brook, New York, May 2010.
Altre contingenze Other Contingencies: Poetry Anthology by Rodolfo Di Biasio, translation with a critical postface, Gradiva Publications, New York/ Caramanica Editore (Italy), May 2002, pp. 300.
Patmos by Rodolfo Di Biasio. Editor of bilingual Italian/English volume, translation with critical introduction, Gradiva Publications, May 1998.
Translation of books (poetry and fiction) Niobe (poetic tale) by Rodolfo Di Biasio, first bilingual edition, Ghenomena, 2022, pp. 60.
Per una gentile compagna di viaggio, Dodici omaggi a Nancy Watkins tradotti da Barbara Carle, May 2017, Fàmmera Edizioni, pp. 44.
Liturgia familiare Family Liturgy, translation of a book of poetry by Tommaso Lisi, Edizioni Il Labirinto, Rome (Italy), May, 2015, pp 76.
Laudes creaturarum (Cantico di Frate Sole by San Francesco d’Assisi), translation in English, Sol Invictus Press, Special Edition (Vandercook Press), Drawings by Stefan C. Arteni, Design by Myriam S.P. De Arteni, New York, 1992.
Translation of poetry into English and French
New English Translation of La ginestra, poem by Giacomo Leopardi in Journal of Italian Translation, Volume XIV, No.1, Spring, 2019: 84-101.
Bambina mattina by Domenico Adriano, co-translation (with Michel Sirvent) of poetry into English and French, Ghenomena EditionsGhenomena Editions (Italy), August 2013 (Rare limited edition), pp. 82.Available in Digital Library, University of North Texas