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Poems about translation 15: Valerio Magrelli on moving house

Having trailed the excellence of Valerio Magrelli as a translator in a previous post, I think it is only fair to give a space in our irregular Poems in Translation series to his wonderful poem 'L'imballatore'. This is a poem which speaks particularly to me at the moment because I am moving home, job and city.

'Imballare' in Italian is 'to pack', as in to pack boxes. 'L'imballatore' would, literally, be something like 'the packer'. More idiomatically it could be 'the removal man'. 'L'imballatore chino/ che mi svuota la stanza' (or, more accurately, the seven removal men) did a wonderful job yesterday and this morning: For Magrelli,