On the Seawall (on GIORNATA):

Beyond the intellectual, emotional, and even psychotherapeutic ways of processing grief, Mashinki offers us a physiological one. <..> In the contemporary American reading culture, we often center the experience of grief as having its own innate value. Mashinski’s way of working with grief belongs to a different poetic tradition. This is the Anna Akhmatova school of poetry, “If only you knew from what rubbish  / poetry grows” (trans. Judith Hemschemeyer). The attention in this collection is on how specifically poetry might grow from rubbish.