Tiziana La Melia - I Come from a Long Line of People
Tiziana La Melia - I Come from a Long Line of People
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| Publisher | Archive Books |
| ISBN | 9783949973635 |
| Idea Code | 251044 |
I Come from a Long Line of People Who Don’t Use Words gathers a selection of poems by artist Tiziana La Melia - drawn from her first two collections and newly translated into Italian - alongside a new cycle, The Simple Life, which reflects on collective healing through cooking, ritual, and everyday magic. The book emerged through a close collaboration between La Melia, editor Sonia D’Alto, and contributors Federica Bueti, Claudia Gangemi, and Elisa Ferrari, who shaped the volume through a fluid, shared process in which roles frequently overlapped. The title evokes La Melia’s inheritance of instability, migration, and rural Southern Italian culture, experiences she reworks through poetic depictions of urban and agricultural life in Vancouver and the Okanagan Valley. Influenced by surrealism, automatism, pop culture, and mystical countercultures, her writing follows a lineage of political and spiritual experimentation. The publication also includes graphic work by Roxanne Maillet and critical texts by D’Alto, Allison Grimaldi Donahue, and Bueti.
| 225 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English/Italian |
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