Publisher Marketing: "In Maria Borio’s Transparencies, the language is anything but. These poems shimmer along the line between abstraction and flesh where our relationships—both intimate and public—are imagined and lived. At once surreal (bees emerging from mouths) and concrete (hair and fingernails in a drawer among neatly folded shirts), cosmic (in “the sharp, lunar wind”) and terrestrial (“in limestone” in “high-rise glass”), Borio’s words make realms collide. “Can the city’s vein have rhythm / beneath the feet of those who walk, / their obscene, transparent bodies?” she asks. Bodied forth into a supple English by Danielle Pieratti, whose renderings are as beautifully attuned to the shifts and multiplicities of Borio’s original as they are to the possibilities of sound and line in translation, this is an exciting book." -- Stefania Heim