Alda Merini is one of Italy's most important, and most beloved, living poets. She has won many of the major national literary prizes and has twice been nominated for the Nobel Prize--by the French Academy in 1996 and by Italian PEN in 2001....

Un alternarsi di orrore e solitudine, di incapacity di comprendere e di essere compresi, in una narrazione che nonostante tutto e un inno alia vita e alia forza del \"sentire\"....