The seventeen authors gathered in the Strattese collective who gave birth to the beautiful volume of stories “We are close” are tightened under the meridian sky (Città del Sole editions) by Tiziana Bianca Calabrò and Eleonora Scrivo, with introduction signed by Claudia Fauzia, training as an economist, expert, among other things, of studies on the South and founder and president of the Malafimmina association.
Together, to tell a time and a commonplace, Sentinels of beauty In that space for meetings and exchanges, of contemplation and contrasts that is the strait, they were seventeen writers, journalists, teachers, bloggers, playwrights, operators or cultural “agitators”, poets, All Daughters-Sorelle of Reggio Calabria and Messina (but there is also a Catania “sister”)inhabitants of the lands overlooking that Pascoliano sea “that if you dive a hand drips blue”, that Homeric sea that knows how to become “wine color” when its abysses riberono.
And on those numinous waters, on those waters of enchantments and notes, these authors, with the strength of the female that also contains the male (and since the beginning the sea, Thalassa and Pelagos, knows how to be together Poseidon and Teti, Nereo and Morgana, Glauco and Amphrity) have built a book-pitte, moving and crossing the stories, telling how they speak.
“A revolutionary act – writes Fauzia in its beautiful introduction – Combine the banks through plural and embodied narratives ». Being narrow is a uniform for being in the world for these seventeen “internal migrants – adds the Fauzia – who choose to remain forever in the waters of Scilla and Cariddi, or who return to find that 30% that is missing from the waters within us”.
Seventeen women, eighteen with Fauzia, plus one of invention, the one who was born from the wise art of Francesco Piobbichi (“social designer” who operates for the Mediterranean Hope project and for the rights of migrants) seems to paint the air in the beautiful cover of the volume: a Morgana or a Teti or a siren, re -emerged by the abysses, however a Strattese, who fly to the waves and the sea. The blue while lifting a bridge on the arms: the book also wants to be an act of militancy and resistance from below, in this case with the peaceful and inclusive weapons of the “Fimmina” literature, against the project of the bridge over the Strait.
Meanwhile, Scilla and Cariddi, no longer monsters, but the tutelary gods of the Strait, are crouched, to listen to these mythopoietic tales that by supporting the currents are divided into three parts: a “first”, a “persemere” and a “after”. There are bodies of women, houses, mountains, castaways and peelopi who resist, there is an entire cartography in the faces and gestures of mothers, aunts, sisters, grandmothers, friends, lovers, young and old, living and death, and of all the heroines of a single spacetime that populate these stories. There are echoes of ancient Magnogreci myths, as old as the original wound that divided Rediion from Zankle, Euboi from Calcidesi, Eros da Thanatos, Athena da Nettuno. The stories are tightened as in a trenches, and they talk to each other to exorcise any type of approval and mystification, between brushstrokes of shadow and light, between hardness and sweetness, between anxieties for the “after” and sadness for the “before”.
To rethink the “persempre” beauty while the world is on fire, to dress the present of the future looking at the past, to resist there are Katia Colica with “At the exact center of the Strait”, Valentina De Grazia with “Alectis Graeca Graeca”, Agata De Luca with “The Morgana ring”, Rosa Maria di Natale with “A/R”, Masella Cotroneo with “these four souls”, With “Talk to me of red and blue”, Gabriella Lax with “Nina”, Mimma Mollica with “Lo Chaperon”, Daniela Orlando with “where the curved world”, Daniela Scuna with “La Ninfa”, Romina Arena with “Creatures”, Caterina will venture with “L’Eredità”, Tiziana Bianca Calabrò with “In the eyes of those who stay”, Eliana Camaioni with “Passione”. “The last house”, Cinzia Aurelia Messina with “Gardenie”, Eleonora I write with “178”. All together together to interrogate the sea, myths and dreams, all of a lookouts to make their choral voice ring in defense of beauty.
Today in Reggio a reading
Today at 5 pm the Strattese collective, consisting of Calabrian and Sicilian authors, will present in Reggio Calabria, at the “Italo Falcomatà” chandeliers’ salon, a literary reading taken from the anthology of stories “we are close”. The initiative is part of the “courses of collective awareness” wanted by the municipal administration for a celebration of March 8, international women’s day, which is “beyond the mimosas”. The councilor for the conscious city, with delegation to equal opportunities, Anna Briante, spoke of “initiatives designed to put respect towards the female figure at the center of the attention, going beyond the stereotypes of the past”.