Patrick Barron is associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston and the author of Terrain Vague: Interstices at the Edge of the Pale.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgments Introduction, Patrick BarronTowards the River’s Mouth, Gianni Celati1“Gianni Celati’s Towards the River’s Mouth: The Experience of Place between Writing and Photography,” Marina Spunta 2“Sight, Language, Time: To be Surrounded by the World,” Monica Seger 3“Gianni Celati’s Strada Provinciale delle anime: A ‘Silent’ Film About ‘Nothing,’” Rebecca West 4“The Posthuman Imagination of Gianni Celati’s Cinema,” Matteo Gilebbi 5“Restoring the Imagination of Place: Narrative Reinhabitation and the Po Valley,” Serenella Iovino 6“Forms of Impegno in Towards the River’s Mouth,” Michele Ronchi Stefanati7“Witnessing the Po River: Disorientation and Estrangement in Primo Levi and Gianni Celati,” Damiano Benvegnù 8“A Tale of Two Giannis: Writing as Rememoration,” Thomas Harrison 9“Walking in the Open Enchanted by the Overheard: Two Reflections on Towards the River’s Mouth,” Massimo Rizzante 10“Introduction toPaesology,”Franco Arminio IndexAbout the Contributors

Gianni Celati is one of Italy’s principal contemporary authors, and one of the world’s leading ecological writers. His “Toward the River’s Mouth,” in the crisp and fluid translation by Patrick Baron, explores the deterioration of the physical and social landscapes of the Po Valley. The literary text, consisting of four travel diaries or “stories of observation,” is accompanied by lucid essays by some of the foremost Italian scholars of the environmental humanities and eco-criticism.

Patrick Barron is associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston and the author of Terrain Vague: Interstices at the Edge of the Pale.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgments Introduction, Patrick BarronTowards the River’s Mouth, Gianni Celati1“Gianni Celati’s Towards the River’s Mouth: The Experience of Place between Writing and Photography,” Marina Spunta 2“Sight, Language, Time: To be Surrounded by the World,” Monica Seger 3“Gianni Celati’s Strada Provinciale delle anime: A ‘Silent’ Film About ‘Nothing,’” Rebecca West 4“The Posthuman Imagination of Gianni Celati’s Cinema,” Matteo Gilebbi 5“Restoring the Imagination of Place: Narrative Reinhabitation and the Po Valley,” Serenella Iovino 6“Forms of Impegno in Towards the River’s Mouth,” Michele Ronchi Stefanati7“Witnessing the Po River: Disorientation and Estrangement in Primo Levi and Gianni Celati,” Damiano Benvegnù 8“A Tale of Two Giannis: Writing as Rememoration,” Thomas Harrison 9“Walking in the Open Enchanted by the Overheard: Two Reflections on Towards the River’s Mouth,” Massimo Rizzante 10“Introduction toPaesology,”Franco Arminio IndexAbout the Contributors

Gianni Celati is one of Italy’s principal contemporary authors, and one of the world’s leading ecological writers. His “Toward the River’s Mouth,” in the crisp and fluid translation by Patrick Baron, explores the deterioration of the physical and social landscapes of the Po Valley. The literary text, consisting of four travel diaries or “stories of observation,” is accompanied by lucid essays by some of the foremost Italian scholars of the environmental humanities and eco-criticism.

Patrick Barron is associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston and the author of Terrain Vague: Interstices at the Edge of the Pale.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgments Introduction, Patrick BarronTowards the River’s Mouth, Gianni Celati1“Gianni Celati’s Towards the River’s Mouth: The Experience of Place between Writing and Photography,” Marina Spunta 2“Sight, Language, Time: To be Surrounded by the World,” Monica Seger 3“Gianni Celati’s Strada Provinciale delle anime: A ‘Silent’ Film About ‘Nothing,’” Rebecca West 4“The Posthuman Imagination of Gianni Celati’s Cinema,” Matteo Gilebbi 5“Restoring the Imagination of Place: Narrative Reinhabitation and the Po Valley,” Serenella Iovino 6“Forms of Impegno in Towards the River’s Mouth,” Michele Ronchi Stefanati7“Witnessing the Po River: Disorientation and Estrangement in Primo Levi and Gianni Celati,” Damiano Benvegnù 8“A Tale of Two Giannis: Writing as Rememoration,” Thomas Harrison 9“Walking in the Open Enchanted by the Overheard: Two Reflections on Towards the River’s Mouth,” Massimo Rizzante 10“Introduction toPaesology,”Franco Arminio IndexAbout the Contributors

Gianni Celati is one of Italy’s principal contemporary authors, and one of the world’s leading ecological writers. His “Toward the River’s Mouth,” in the crisp and fluid translation by Patrick Baron, explores the deterioration of the physical and social landscapes of the Po Valley. The literary text, consisting of four travel diaries or “stories of observation,” is accompanied by lucid essays by some of the foremost Italian scholars of the environmental humanities and eco-criticism.