Love lessons : selected poems of Alda Merini /
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Table of Contents:
- From Poetry's Flower
- From the Presence of Orpheus (1953)
- The Presence of Orpheus
- Will I Be Alone?
- From Fear of God (1955)
- Only an Angel's Hand
- Mary of Egypt (Tintoretto)
- Peace
- From Roman Wedding (1955)
- Roman Wedding
- The Pieta
- The Cumaean Sibyl
- When the Anguish
- From You Are Pietro (1961)
- From the First Part
- Peter's Mission
- From the Second Part
- Dream
- Antique Lyric
- And It Would Be Even Easier
- From the Holy Land (1984)
- As for me, I used to be a bird
- Western Ring Road
- The moon unveils itself in the madhouse gardens
- My first mother-theft
- From for Michele Pierri (unpublished until 1991)
- The Song of the Groom
- Elegy
- From the Thieving Magpie: Twenty Portraits (unpublished until 1991)
- Sappho
- Emily Dickinson
- Plath
- Alda Merini
- The Overcoat
- The Apron
- The Guest
- From Ripa's Satires (1983)
- Caesar loved Cleopatra
- From Manganelli's Quagmire or the King's Reign (1992)
- Othello
- From Colossal Inner Loves (1993)
- The Slip
- From Penniless ballads (1995)
- Then I went back to that bright snow
- From the Fox and the Curtain (1997)
- What unbearable chiaroscuro
- From Aphorisms (1997)
- From Superb Is the Night (2000)
- On the pit of an apricot
- The most superb thing is the night
- Night, if it is not swift
- There was a fountain that offered dawns
- Naviglio that succors my flesh
- There are artificial paradises
- Stay steady burning olive tree
- On the Death of My Sister
- Oh song of the snow stuck inside the ditch
- War
- The Raven
- The Cry of Death
- Unpublished (composed 2001)
- In the land of Scotland.