I COME FROM A LONG LINE OF PEOPLE WHO DONT USE WORDS by Tiziana La Melia

with readings by Tiziana La Melia, Becket MWN and Gabi Dao at 6.30pm

The book I Come from a Long Line of People Who Don’t Use Words is a collection of poems by artist Tiziana La Melia, translated into Italian. It includes a selection of poems from her first two books of poetry as well as a new body of work titled The Simple Life focusing on collective healing through food preparation and divinatory culinary therapies.
The formation of the book was the result of a dedicated collaboration between the author, the editor Sonia D’Alto, and the contributors Federica Bueti, Claudia Gangemi, and Elisa Ferrari. The editor, in her text, mentions the collaborative process: “By diluting and postponing work plans and distilling desires into semantic concerns, the roles of editor, translator, author, and proofreader at times eroded, becoming sensitive to the possibilities of multiple voices, reciprocity, and collective decision making.”
The Publication also comprises a graphic design insert of The Simple Life by Roxanne Maillet, the Editor’s Note: How to write a garden, how to eat a syntax, how to read the new moon by Sonia D’Alto, A Secret-Gushing-Cunt-Filled Garden by Allison Grimaldi Donahue and What Gets Through the Gaps of the Grid by Federica Bueti.