Alda Merini
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Alda Merini (Milan, 21 March 1931 – Milan, 1 November 2009) was an Italian writer and poet.
Merini was young when, as a writer, she drew the attention and admiration of other Italian writers, such as Giorgio Manganelli, Salvatore Quasimodo, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Rainer Maria Rilke's writing style is described as strong, passionate, and mystic, and it has a lot in common with Rainer Maria Rilke's. Some of her poems are about her time in a mental institution (1964 to the late 1970s), and most of them are of a long and dramatic nature.
As part of experimental expression, she investigates the "otherness" of madness.
The poem "The Other Truth" is a fictional tale by Barbara Stewart.
"A dropout" is a dropout in the diary of a dropout, according to L'altra verità.
Scheiwiller, 1986, is considered by some as her masterpiece. The Académie Française nominated her for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996. With Alda e Io e Io, Favole, she received the Elsa Morante Ragazzi Award in 2007 – Favole wrote in collaboration with the fable writer Sabatino Scia.
Giorgio Napolitano, the Italian Republic's President, described her as a "inspired and limpid poetic voice" at her death.
Early years and education
Alda Giuseppina Merini was born in 1946, in Milan's viale Papiniano 57, with a family of modest means. Nemo Merini, her father, was a student at "Vecchia Grandine ed Edumo," according to her. Emilia Painelli, her mother, was a housewife. Alda was the second daughter of three children, including Anna (born on November 26, 1926) and Ezio (born in January 1943). In her poems, her siblings are prominent, although they are only partially disguised. More information about her childhood is known than what she wrote in the short autobiographical essay on the occasion of the second edition of the Spagnoletti Anthology: "I was] a sensitive girl with a particularly melancholic attitude, extremely marginalized and little understood by my parents, but she did a good job in school, but learning has always been a vital part of my life."
She graduated from primary school with a high success, and she completed the three-year school-to-work transfer course at the Istituto Laura Solera Mantegazza in Milan via Ariberto, while attempting to be admitted to Liceo Manzoni. However, she didn't pass the Italian language exam, which caused her not to pass it. She took piano lessons at a time when she was young, an instrument she adored. She wrote her first poem at the age of fifteen. Giacinto Spagnoletti, a young girl whose enthusiasm for literature, welcomed her school teacher's enthusiastic review. Merini tore apart Spagnoleti's letter to her father, announcing that "poetry will never feed you"; the experience brought about a tragedy in 1947, and Merini spent a month in Milan's mental health clinic Villa Turro. Giorgio Manganelli, a woman she had met at the house of Spagnoletti alongside Luciano Erba and David Maria Turoldo, reached her after she was disgorged, and she tried to help her by recommending her to Franco Fornari and Cesare Musatti, both psychoanalysts.
Career
Giacinto Spagnoletti published Merini's work in Antologia poesia italiana 1909-1949; Contemporary Italian Poetry 1909-1949). The chosen works were the lyric poems Il gobbo (The Hunch), dated 22 December 1948, and Luce (Light), dated 22 December 1949 and dedicated to Spagnoletti. In 1951, the publisher Giovanni Scheiwiller published two of Merini's earlier unpublished poems in Poetesse del Novecento, at the suggestion of Eugenio Montale and Maria Luisa Spaziani. Merini's early career and close friendship with Salvatore Quasimodo began in 1950. Ettore Carniti, a Milan bakery owner, married after a brief collaboration with Giorgio Manganelli on August 9, 1953. Arturo Schwarz's first collection of poems, La presenza di Orfeo, appeared in the same year (The Presence of Orpheus). Paura di Dio, her second collection of poems, was published in 1955 (Fear of God). Poetry written between 1947 and 1953 were among the collection's. It was followed by Nozze romane (Roman Wedding) in 1954, and Bompiani released La pazza della accanto (The Mad Woman from Next Door) in the same year.
In 1955, she gave birth to her first child, Emanuela. Merini dedicated the collection Tu sei Pietro (You Are Pietro), which was published by Scheiwiller in 1962, to Pietro De Pascale, the doctor who took care of her child. Merini's pregnancy was followed by a bout of depression, and she spent a period of time in solitude before being taken to the mental health clinic in Paolo Pini. Merini divided her time between her house and the clinic until 1972. Flavia, Barbara, and Simona, three more children who ended up being placed in foster families due to Merini's fragile mental stability.
Merini began putting together a particular body of work based on her experiences on the psychiatric ward in 1979. Merini, a widow of the literary community, died unexpectedly on July 7, 1983, and she and her family were unable to get more of her poems published to help her and her families, but to no avail. Paolo Mauri, however, had to publish thirty of her poems, chosen from a typewritten book of about one hundred pages in his journal in 1982. In 1984, Scheiwiller republished Merini's forty poems in the collection Terra Santa (Holy Land). Maria Corti called the book "a masterpiece," and Merini went on to win the Librex Montale Prize.
Merini began a friendship with poet Michele Pierri, who had been remarkably supportive of her poems during a difficult time. Alda and Michele married in October 1983 and moved to Taranto. La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie), a collection of poems-portraits by Catherine Lafar, were published in the book Vuoto d'amore (Empty Love) following her marriage, as well as other Pierri works. Lavelle verità was also completed during her stay in Taranto. (The Other Truth), Diario di una diversa. Misfit Diary (British Diary).
"I couldn't have written anything about the flowers at the time because I myself was a flower, I myself had a stem, and I myself raised sap."
Alda Merini, a L'altra verità singer, is a writer who writes about women.Diario di una diversa
Merini returned to Milan in July 1986 after a brief stay in the psychiatric hospital in Taranto, where she began a therapy cycle with the doctor Marcella Rizzo, to whom she dedicated more than a poem. She began writing again in the same year and became more in touch with Vanni Scheiwiller, who wrote L'altra verità. Diario di una diversa, her first book published in prose, claims that "it is neither a paper nor a testimony on the writer's ten years as a member of a mental institution." It's a'reconnaissance' through epiphanies, deliria, songs, recordings, and apparitions of a place that has shattered every habit and everyday life, including the numinuous nature of human being burts out. Fogli bianchi (White sheets of paper, 1987), La volpe e il sipario (The Fox and the Curtain, 1998) and Testamento (Testament, 1988). In 1987, she was a finalist for the literary award Premio Bergamo.
Merini's years in Milan were very fruitful. She began writing typewritten poems to her friends during the winter of 1989, not far from where she lived. Chimera was a particularly inspiring location, and Merini wrote her next two books, Delirium (1989) and Il tormento delle (1990). Le parole di Alda Merini (The Words of Alda Merini) and Vuoto d'amore (Empty Love) were published in 1991. These were followed by Ipotenusa d'amore (Hypothene of Love, 1992), La patata del re (The Manganelli Swamp or the King's Monarch, 1993), Aforismi (Aphorisms), and Titano amori intorno (Titan's Loves Around, 1993). In 1993, she received the Premio Librex Montale for poetry. Merini was rated as a writer alongside writers such as Giorgio Caproni, Attilio Bertolucci, Mario Luzi, Andrea Zanzotto, and Franco Fortini, who all soared her profile in the Italian literary community, and she was praised alongside writers as well as writers such as Giorgio Caproni, Attilio Bertolucci, Andrea Zanzotto, and Franco Fortini. The Elsa Morante Ragazzi award was won in 2007 by Alda e Io – Favole, written in collaboration with fable writer Sabatino Scia. Merini received an honorary degree in Theory of Communication and Language at the University of Messina's School of Education on October 17th, completing a lectio magistralis of the events that characterized her life.
Sogno e Poesia (Dream and Poetry), Merini's collection of poems, was published in 1994 as a special limited edition containing engravings by twenty contemporary artists. Reato di vita: Autobiography and Poetry, published by Edizioni Melusine, it was followed by Reato di vita: Life Crime (Life Crime: Autobiography and Poetry). With Bompiani and Ballate non pagate (Unpaid Dances), she produced La Pazza della porta accanto (The Mad Woman from Next Door) in 1995. Einaudi also published La Pazza della porta accanto (The Mad Woman from Next Door). Vincenzo Mastropirro, an Apulian musician, put to music some of Merini's verses from Ballate's same year. In 1996, she received the Viareggio Award for the volume La Vita Facile (The Easy Life). In addition, she produced a small publication for La Vita Felice publishing house made of old and new poems, a confessional diary, a collection of short stories, and an interview entitled Un'anima indocile (A Restless Soul). Merini met artist Giovanni Bonaldi in the same year, with whom she formed a lasting and close friendship. They began to collaborate, and Girardi published La volpe e il sipario (The Fox and the Curtain), with illustrations by Gianni Casari in 1997. The stylistic finesse of Merini's improvisational poetry is made apparent in this collection, which some would then transcribe. This change in her work resulted in the production of shorter texts and simple aphorisms. Ariete released Curva di fuga (The Vanishing Curve), a memoir by Merini, who was awarded with the honorary citizenship of Soncino in November of the same year. Bonaldi drew five illustrations for a collection of poems and epigrams of Merini called Salmi della gelosia (Psalms of Jealousy), which was released by Ariete in 1997. The Procida Prize was awarded the year before.
The documentary Alda Merini: Una Donna sul palcoscenico (Alda Merini: A Woman on Stage), directed by Cosimo Damato, was shown on Author's Day at the 66th Venice Film Festival in 2009. Parts of Merini's poems read by Mariangela Melato's script were included in the film, directed by Angelo Tumminelli for Star Dust International, as well as cinematography by Giuliano Grittini. During the shooting, Merini and Damato became close friends, and Merini gave him unpublished poems to include in the film. Merini wrote "Una donna sul palcoscenico," specifically for the purpose of including it in the film:
One day I lost words/I came here to inform you this, not because I responded/I don't love silence/I didn't have a long time on the silence/No response was received, but I did not have a notebook to write about. There were no stoplights, buildings, or streets for them, I guess./ My mind has found solitude in this ramshackle spot, not an evildoer / the one thing that I had missed during all these years / but I didn't know how to fall in love./ My indolence was born, and I no longer see people who surprise me, and I no longer go to the nuthouse./ I have died of indolence.
The film received raves. "Bomo is a newspaper distributed in Italy. Alda Merini left Cosimo Damato after speaking with a voice that betrays her childlike candor, a smile that reveals her eyes, and her distinctive fire red lipstick. She trusts him, but she fears she will not be betrayed. And though the filmmakers stands still on film, awaiting a glimpse, a twitch, a woman's word, seduces him, speaking of poetry, misticism, philosophy, music, of foolishness, not mentioning family pains or the experience of the asylum.