With us at GO: Ilaria Maria D'Urbano presenting a poetic performance from her book Mani di prugna (Nino Aragno Editore), with an introduction by Ginevra Barbetti.

The book:

This collection, to which the author has given the evocative title Mani di prugna, gathers verses written between August 2022 and September 2023, a difficult time marked by pain, development, and personal growth.
The year began with a painful move—from an apartment in the center of Florence, on the fourth floor with no elevator, to a small house surrounded by greenery in the Florentine countryside. Settling into a new place generates an initial sense of disorientation that inevitably, and powerfully, demands a reconfiguration of identity. At the same time, however, it offers a magnificent opportunity for renewal.

These and other life circumstances weave an unceasing dialogue between life, death, and love. Here, words are given back to the dead, to the forgotten, while those who remain are entrusted with the task of questioning mystery. Loss and mourning take on a new guise, within a dimension of reciprocity.

The author:

Ilaria Maria D'Urbano is a poet, writer, and screenwriter. She has published the poetry collections Mirra (2023), Frantoio(2021), and the novel Alma, il dolore agile (with a preface by Pupi Avati, 2020). Her short film Alma, for which she wrote the story and screenplay, is its cinematic transposition. From Mani di prugna arise two multidisciplinary projects: E poi…? Dialogue between Love and Death — a theatrical experience, and Cuori sepolti — a meditation and writing encounter held in the cemetery.