Product Description: Alda Merini’s poetry presents the sacred and the profane not as two opposing areas of life, but rather as two currents in the same rising stream. In this fundamental piece of her bibliography, the third in a trilogy, the figure of the angel emerges as a perfect symbol of this contradictory symbiosis...read more

Product Description: Alda Merini’s mysticism is profoundly embodied; it renders her not more provocative, but rather more revealing and necessary. Merini’s Christ is the passion of the man made word, a man whom she both loves and betrays. Cuerpo de amor does not permit reductive readings, instead leaving open the possibility of the most distant points of view being, in fact, the closest...read more

Product Description: 'a lyrical memoir' tr Pasquale Verdicchio