To experience infinity, one would have to go outside. Poems from Windy Days

The distance in love, the proximity of death, writing and silence, the annoyance at conformism and the hypocrisy of social life: these are the true and essential themes of the new collection of unpublished poems by a writer much loved for her prose, who here returns to the power of the poetic word, her first love. It is the noise of life that resonates powerfully in each of the poems in this volume—poems of absence and nostalgia, of waiting and unspoken words, of exhortations and the wind rustling the leaves. Her writing is seemingly light, dotted with rhymes that are at times unexpected, through which Paola Mastrocola sets her verses to a rhythm that transforms passions and fears—the desire to cling on or to let go as life unfolds—into a joyful dance, always teetering on the edge of the precipice. And the sea that flows through the pages gives shape to the metaphor of the elusiveness and impermanence of all happiness, of its turning into regret, just like the ebb and flow of a wave.

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Publication date: 03.11.2026
Publisher: Einaudi - Super ET
Number of Pages: 152
Country: Italy

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