The book\u00a0I Come from a Long Line of People Who Don\u2019t Use Words<\/i>\u00a0is 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 and a new body of work titled\u00a0The Simple Life<\/i>, which focuses on collective healing through food preparation and magic culinary therapies.<\/p>\n
The formation of the book was the result of a dedicated collaboration between the author, the editor Sonia D\u2019Alto, and the contributors Federica Bueti, Claudia Gangemi, and Elisa Ferrari. The editor, in her text, mentions the collaborative process: \u201cBy 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
The English title of the publication,\u00a0I Come from a Long Line of People Who Don\u2019t Use Words<\/i>, refers to the author\u2019s inheritance. This heritage includes experiences of instability, migration, and rural culture in Southern Italy. The author depicts this subaltern condition in both urban and rural settings, specifically Vancouver and the Okanagan Valley, where the poet lives.<\/p>\n
La Melia\u2019s artistic practice is influenced by surrealism, automatism, pop culture, and various forms of mystical counterculture. She follows a lineage of political and spiritual experiments that challenge modern cultural heritage and familial structures. This lineage is related to an aesthetic of psychedelic storytelling, therapies, and ecstatic experiences that help to reimagine reality.<\/p>\n
The Publication also comprises a graphic design insert of\u00a0The Simple Life<\/i>\u00a0by Roxanne Maillet, the\u00a0Editor\u2019s Note: How to write a garden, how to eat a syntax, how to read the new moon<\/i>\u00a0by Sonia D\u2019Alto,\u00a0A Secret-Gushing-Cunt-Filled Garden<\/i>\u00a0by Allison Grimaldi Donahue and\u00a0What Gets Through the Gaps of the Grid\u00a0<\/i>by Federica Bueti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"