This collection of verse by the Canadian writer Maureen Scott Harris, which won her the prestigious Trillium Book Award for Poetry in Canada, is the first publication of her work in Italian. The texts presented here, with Italian translation on the facing pages, are a selection of the best poems from the writer’s second volume, Drowning Lessons. The Italian rendering of the title evokes two of the threads from which the volume is woven: in the onomatopeic Sussuri (whispers), the echo of the vibrations of the cosmos sounds as “whispered music” to the poet’s ear; while the direct reference to water (acqua) acknowledges that inexhaustible source of life and fatal threat of annihilation.