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Opening and Closing Numbers
Anny Ballardini[/b]
Sample poem:
The L sound
the L sound is my favorite
brief liquid & light
it could be a dream where I got lost
the one with a belief
it talks of loss because of luck
of the Latin fifty in the middle of the road
of lymph and nymphs on aquatic leaves
of the effect Monet wanted us to breathe
in waterlilies reflected by his blindness
of playing Naiads with bell-lyras
in fields of azure leveling hills
far down to distant stills
of metamorphism twisting along the gulf
deploying shining spots of hidden suns
Reviews for Opening and Closing Numbers:
“Anny Ballardini's Opening and Closing Numbers contains poems of the absolute lyric, wherein words, prompted by art, by the movement of lines, speak the nature of poetry.
[...]They reveal poetry through words, which is one of the Earth's rarities.”
"Done without the squeal of the Egotistical Sublime, without implemented drama. I was surprised (knowing no better) at the restraint as well as the strength of these poems.”
Complete on-line reviews:
Jeff Harrison: tinyurl.com/58xano
Allen Bramhall: tinyurl.com/5fhb6g
About the author:
ISBN: 1-4116-6055-2, 174 pages, $12.00
Moria Poetry, 2005.
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Lulu: www.lulu.com/content/187905
Moria: www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html---- Download pdf. [/font]
Opening and Closing Numbers
Anny Ballardini[/b]
Opening and Closing Numbers is my first collection of poems.
Before this book published in 2005, after years and years in the arts, I wrote an incredible number of poems that I regularly discarded. I therefore value the present text as a milestone that gathers half a lifetime work -- from there I started following new and distinct paths, but by recognizing the present work.
Sample poem:
The L sound
the L sound is my favorite
brief liquid & light
it could be a dream where I got lost
the one with a belief
it talks of loss because of luck
of the Latin fifty in the middle of the road
of lymph and nymphs on aquatic leaves
of the effect Monet wanted us to breathe
in waterlilies reflected by his blindness
of playing Naiads with bell-lyras
in fields of azure leveling hills
far down to distant stills
of metamorphism twisting along the gulf
deploying shining spots of hidden suns
Reviews for Opening and Closing Numbers:
“Anny Ballardini's Opening and Closing Numbers contains poems of the absolute lyric, wherein words, prompted by art, by the movement of lines, speak the nature of poetry.
[...]They reveal poetry through words, which is one of the Earth's rarities.”
The poet Jeff Harrison on galatea resurrects, #9
"Done without the squeal of the Egotistical Sublime, without implemented drama. I was surprised (knowing no better) at the restraint as well as the strength of these poems.”
The poet Allen Bramhall on galatea resurrects, #3 (a poetry engagement):
Complete on-line reviews:
Jeff Harrison: tinyurl.com/58xano
Allen Bramhall: tinyurl.com/5fhb6g
About the author:
Anny Ballardini lives in Bolzano, Italy. She grew up in New York, lived in New Orleans, Buenos Aires, Florence. A poet, translator and interpreter (simultaneous interpreter for English, French, Italian), she teaches high school; edits Poets’ Corner - Fieralingue, an online poetry site; and writes a blog: Narcissus Works. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from UNO, University of New Orleans. Besides various full length publications of translations on the market, to be mentioned is her collection of poems, Opening and Closing Numbers published by Moria Editions, 2005. (Detailed resume here.)
Moria Editions: www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
Blog: annyballardini.blogspot.com/
ISBN: 1-4116-6055-2, 174 pages, $12.00
Moria Poetry, 2005.
[glow=teal,2,300]BUY HERE, BUY NOW:[/glow]
Lulu: www.lulu.com/content/187905
Moria: www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html---- Download pdf. [/font]