Patrizia Poli
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Patrizia Poli was born in Livorno in 1961. Writer of fiction and blogger, she published seven novels.
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Me and You
My homozygous twin who are twenty years younger, you speak Milanese while I am here with the heavy Roma accent, you lived in liquid nitrogen, but you are not used to the cold, you hate it as much as I do. When they thawed you they didn’t tell me, yet I felt you, you are a part of me. You are me. You and I are the same, now that I see you, that you are here in front of me, I know. I touch your hand and it is my hand from twenty years ago, small, with short nails, small golden hairs on the back. Today my nails are streaked, my husband says I use too much bleach. You still have pink student fingers. Your parents keep you in cotton wool, you are rich. I can see it from the cool bag, from the designer glasses. You are happy - you are telling me - you grew up in a room full of dolls, of toys that kept company but suffocated. You were free to do what I was not allowed to, you stay late in the evening, you smoke joints and drink until you throw up.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Fiction
Nora Ikstena's "Un Bianco Fazzoletto"
There is a fable by Bechstein called “The Magic Book”. It is only a mental association, but looking at this small object — calling it a book would not convey the idea — hand-sewn with a burgundy thread (the same one which, curiously, is also mentioned in the fairy tale) let us enter in another dimension, that of a cool and windy foreign land.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Mauro Cesaretti's "Se è vita lo sarà per sempre"
In the collection “If It is Life it Will Always Be”, by Mauro Cesaretti, the first book of a future trilogy, the object of the dispute is Life, as it may appear to a very emotional boy: difficult, full of disappointments and fears. Managing emotions is the hardest task.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Henry Rider Haggart, Who Comes Before Wilbur Smith?
We all know that Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925) is fully considered, thanks to Ayesha’s cycle — in particular to the best seller “She”, but also to adventurous Gothic tales such as “The Lady of Blossome” — the precursor of fantasy and imaginative literature, like Lovecraft, Poe, Verne and Stevenson.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
AA.VV. Cronache dal Neocabonifero"
Gianfranco de Turris is one of the leading fantasy experts in Italy. Born in 1944, he is a journalist, writer and essayist. He made his debut in the sixties on the pages of the magazines “Oltre il cielo” and “Futuro”, created the series of the Fanucci publishing house, directed the magazine “The other Kingdom” dedicated to the criticism of the fantastic and chaired the Tolkien prize organized by the Solfanelli publishing house.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
The Picture Novels
In the beginning it was the feuilleton, the low cut of nineteenth-century newspapers, a popular novel in installments, destined to increase newspaper sales. Then, in 1947, a certain Stefano Reda goes around the publishing houses proposing the crazy and innovative idea of a comic that has photos instead of drawings. Only the small Novissima publishing house, affiliated with Rizzoli, accepts. Sogno, a sixteen-page newspaper, comes out. The subjects are by Reda and Luciana Peverelli, writer of romance novels. Shortly after, Arnoldo Mondadori also publishes a book of photo novels entitled Bolero (film). To these two must be added the previous Grand Hotel, whose novels, however, were only drawn.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Geeks
Imma Tataranni
I don’t like mysteries, especially those that are solved in one episode, and the main character of this Italian series at a glance didn’t attract me, so I hadn’t yet seen “Imma Tataranni”, a series based on the novels by Mariolina Venezia. Then, thanks to the boredom of some recent American series (such as “Outer Banks”), I decided to give Matera’s deputy prosecutor a chance.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Giana Anguissola, "Violetta la timida"
Giana Anguissola (Travo, Piacenza 1906 — Milan 1966) begins writing at the age of sixteen, collaborating with the “Corriere dei Piccoli” on which she publishes novels and short stories. Her most famous novel is “Violetta la Timida” from 1963, which wins the Bancarellino prize.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Humans
Nemesis
The first was the vacuum cleaner. It spat instead of inhaling. Then the dishwasher began to dull all the dishes. Then a fresh new plate fell off the cutting cabinet on your foot. And the tree collapsed a suspicious number of times with all the balls that shattered and you were there to buy them back like a jerk at half the price because it now were only three days before Christmas.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Fiction
Macale, DeCave, Appetito, "Resushitati"
Cardiopoetica is a literary collective made up of three people — Marco De Cave, Fabio Appetito and Mariano Macale — which does not arise only as a union of three authors in a single volume, rather — at least in intentions — as a sort of new cultural avant-garde, of literary manifesto.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Poets
