Poetic anthology "The key to living", Author: Nancy Avellina

"The key to living", Foreword by Giuseppe Manitta: (Nancy Avellina with the work "The key to living" was awarded the "Award of Excellence" prize "Pietro Carrera" for unpublished collection. It is a text which, as the title hints at, unfolds in the depths of the self, scovandone the most intimate secrets, fears and feelings, decisions and contemplations. All the arguments, however, revolve around a central core that is It can easily identify the feeling of love. But not only is this aspect that affects our author. She gives herself to the vicissitudes of the intimate and meditates continually on the value of life, about the misunderstandings that are outlined in it. Everything is concentrated in a mood highly sensitive and makes the suffering his weapon and, in an emotional journey, is moving towards the light. In fact, the element luministic recall both sections that divide the anthology. The soul, then, is how the Arab phoenix, which rises continually, despite being dominated by hard shocks. In this reflection, between dreamlike visions and size memorials, stands the duality or dialectic that characterizes man and his feelings. Love, that is the key to life, is also an inexhaustible source of joy, is the bearer of wounds, enchantment of life, instigator of worries. Among the affected, relevance also love in the broadest sense, the family, which is another nuance of the "key to living."
<< We savor every path / unique and mysterious / that surrounds us in the shadows / sciogliamoci to what we feel wandering into nothingness / finding ourselves; / Do not look back / because we are afraid, / but we welcome with open hearts this step / by bending forward beyond ourselves; / The course of time / we can not arrest him, / as our mind wanders endlessly, / as the hidden desires pulsate in, / like love dominates ourselves, / then let us go / because our time / is intended >> to finish. The verses just cited, taken from the opera "Dream", are indicative of the collection. Revolves around emotion every lyric, but just this theme allows us to identify in the poetry of Nancy Avellina not only a simple vision and interpretation of feelings, but a general hymn to life. Among these issues is the time with his relentless flow allows us to understand the importance of every moment. The inner life of the author overcomes despair because, as she said, the strength to live must win literally fear to surrender. Here, then, the struggle that constantly engages in favor of his soul and his life, an attitude that extends to the world, to reality and, more generally, the externality. So the feeling creates a concentric up to invest people and places dear. The lyrics, in fact, emerges a warm attachment to things and scenarios neighbors author, a real topography accompanying the topography of the heart. The mystery of life is associated with the mystery of salvation, to religion and to trust in the future. A poem of the heart, that of Nancy Avellina, yet also a reflection on the proposals tomorrow.
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