““When I am about to read them, and write about them, I become sleepless. What is this reading that steals my sleep and makes me restless with anticipation? Readlorn like lovelorn, forlorn. What is this writing that contains the restlessness of a yearning?””
Book cover images: Chimeras and Singed by Daniela Cascella
Daniela Cascella is an Italian-British writer, working with forms and transformations of critical writing that inhabit, echo, and are haunted by their subjects: literature, voices, concealments of the self. Writing in English as a second language, writing as a stranger in a language, she is drawn toward unstable and uncomfortable forms of writing-as-sounding, and toward the transmissions and interferences of knowledge across cultures.
Her books articulate tensions and points of contact between the literary and the sonic, through experiments with form, voice, and ways of reading: Nothing As We Need It (Punctum Books / Risking Education, 2022), Singed. Muted Voice-Transmissions, After The Fire (Equus Press, 2017), F.M.R.L. Footnotes, Mirages, Refrains and Leftovers of Writing Sound (Zer0 Books, 2015), En Abîme: Listening, Reading, Writing. An Archival Fiction (Zer0 Books, 2012).