Gina Saraceni

Gina Saraceni is a poet, researcher, and critic born in Caracas in 1966. She received her Master’s degree in Latin American Literature and her Doctorate in Letters at the Simon Bolivar University. Her research interests include literary theory, travel literature, representations of memory and identity, and contemporary Venezuelan poetry. She works as an associate professor in the Department of Literary Studies at the Pontifical Javierian University. Saracenti has published several volumes of poetry and has translated into Italian some of Venezuela's best known voices, including Yolanda Pantin and Rafael Cadenas.

RADICI

Like a plant
that seeks the light 
and twists toward it,
the house flees toward the sea, 
crosses plateaux
savannas, hills, 
reaches the beach, the 
waves echoing
with the birds of summer,
a fish’s life
that broadens the world, 
the root of the father 
whose name is Adriatic: 
so the sea,
so the house.

    — Translated by Rowena Hill