LITERATURES FROM THE WORLD
Slavonic Tales on The Sacrifice of the Son
The Bulgarian story The three brothers and God invites us to reflect on how the character of oral literature is both transnational and specifically...
CELLULOID WORDS
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) is one of the three films in the history of cinema which ever won all five major...
Zazie in the Metro
The film, released in 1960, is based on the novel of the same name by Raymond Queneau, an author very much in vogue in...
POPULAR
Rishi Dastidar – Come on abacus
Common sense-ism tells us
all this look at me energy,
this childish hope that we
might belong to somewhere,
someone, has to be expended
before we get given...
Willa Cather – Peter
“No, Antone, I have told thee many times, no, thou shalt not sell it until I am gone.”
“But I need money; what good is...
Alfredo Rienzi – Verbs surrender, omens do not say
Verbs surrender, omens do not say
These lines, they say
of nothing that happens,
they do not portray facts.
A few rare fossil verbs endure:
It stands, it waits,...
Ellen Bass – Indigo
Indigo, a poem that titles the latest Ellen Bass’s collection
Indigo is a poem that titles the latest book by Ellen Bass. The poem talks...
Alfredo Rienzi – Nigredo
Some mists descend to hide
the sides of valleys and glades,
along lanes and trails untraced
on the maps . To hide, or to be lost,...
PAPER DREAMS
Rishi Dastidar – Come on abacus
Common sense-ism tells us
all this look at me energy,
this childish hope that we
might belong to somewhere,
someone, has to be expended
before we get given the wisdom
keys. Though no one will tell
you that the...
Willa Cather – Peter
“No, Antone, I have told thee many times, no, thou shalt not sell it until I am gone.”
“But I need money; what good is that old fiddle to thee? The very crows laugh at...
THE VERTICAL THOUGHT
Daniel Meurois-Givaudan – This Nail I Hammered
If there is a book that can really open hearts and minds, and lead to a new direction in life, is "This Nail I...
“Shock bibliotherapy” suggestions
Shock bibliotherapy suggestions… every book, both fiction and non-fiction, can inspire, help, and guide us in every walk of life, as long as we...
Gordon Ramsay – Humble Pie. My autobiography
What’s behind this famous, starred, TV chef? What made him the man he’s today? Is he really the way he looks on TV?
Humble Pie,...
Samantha Ellis – Take Courage: Anne Brontë and the Art of...
“Shock bibliotherapy” suggestions… every book, both fiction and non-fiction, can inspire, help, and guide us in every walk of life, as long as we...
Gabrielle Zevin – The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Who's like to open a holy bookshop, like the one in The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (originally published as The Collected Works of...
Awakening films and tv series
During times of change and related turmoil like our current one, there are some films and TV series that can help us, not only...
NORHERN LIGHTS
Mikael Niemi – The man who died like a salmon
It is considered as a crime novel, but perhaps this is due to a habit rather than to a true adherence to this style....
Flemming Jensen – The Bank Robber Blues
The bank robber blues is a crime novel definitely out of the ordinary: the main character Max kills the Danish prime minister. In very...
Karen Blixen (as Isak Dinesen) – Winter’s Tales
Winter’s Tales is a collection of eleven short stories, wrote in the ‘30ies and published in 1942.
The pieces contain several recurring themes that go...
SERIAL (IDENTITY) ISSUES
Feud
The first season of Feud was transmitted between March and April 2017. It has 8 episodes and it is based on the true story...
THE STONE
Claire Loader – Qetesh
A goddess sits at the end of my bed,
visits these nights of waking.
Where thoughts run
more than fingers, hands wary
of the divide.
Instead we turn...
POET'S CORNER
Alfredo Rienzi – Verbs surrender, omens do not say
Verbs surrender, omens do not say
These lines, they say
of nothing that happens,
they do not portray facts.
A few rare fossil verbs endure:
It stands, it waits,...
Alfredo Rienzi – Nigredo
Some mists descend to hide
the sides of valleys and glades,
along lanes and trails untraced
on the maps . To hide, or to be lost,...
Alfredo Rienzi – One goes back where one has already been
I went back to exploring life
- wrapped in the leopard’s golden mantle –
the perfect ring, the cycle of everything:
a lot has changed after...
Alfredo Rienzi
Alfredo Rienzi (Venosa, 1959), lives in Turin since 1963. Physician. In 1993 he published Contemplando segni, a poetic collection that won the X Montale...
Sara Teasdale – There Will Come Soft Rains
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And...
Lyn Coffin – on the street below…
on the street below
the tanks rolled on like
congealing lava
you grab the backpack
you prepared a week
ago and add your
mother's antique salt
cellar then rail...
Natalie Diaz – How the Milky Way Was Made
My river was once unseparated. Was Colorado. Red —
fast flood. Able to take
anything it could wet—in a wild rush—
all the way to...
Fiona Sampson – Frankenstein’s Golem
Who is this
moving swiftly
through darkness
in a landscape
not yet given
form by daylight
slipping shapeless
as a shadow
through the dark
and unknown places
wearing night
next to his skin
wearing a pelt
of...
Fernanda Burgath – “my mother said that…”
my mother said that
that her mother’s said
that her mother and grandmother
also said
that yes, you have to do
the great-grandmother said yes
because who first said that...
