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    Quicksand

    By Annarita Coriasco

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    Quicksand is insidious, sticky, deadly, nevertheless, well disguised behind a harmless and pleasant landscape appearance: exactly like our society, looking rich in moral principles and messenger of justice, freedom and democracy, in cruel and merciless reality with whom has the adversity or the inexperience to complete a simple false step. That is why the title of the collection. “Quicksand”, in fact, is a poetries collection on our time.
    Annarita Coriasco's poetry is characterized by belonging to the “objective” kind, with the verification of the reality of things and social problems. Who looks for escapist literature, he won't find it in this collection.
    This has been the first poetries collection of the author. It collects some of the poetries written during the '70 and '80 years, and it is published here for the first time.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnnarita Coriasco
    Release dateSep 8, 2012
    ISBN9781301880638
    Quicksand
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    Annarita Coriasco

    Annarita Coriasco, italian poetress and writer.Annarita Coriasco, scrittrice, ha ricevuto due volte il premio “Courmayeur” di letteratura fantastica. Le sono stati attribuiti i premi internazionali “Jean Monnet” (patrocinato dalla Presidenza della Repubblica Italiana, dall’Università di Genova e dalle Ambasciate di Francia e Germania) e "Carrara - Hallstahammar". Ha ricevuto l'onorificenza di "Cavaliere" dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana.

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      Quicksand - Annarita Coriasco

      PREFACE

      (edited in 1991 on the occasion of a limited edition of 20 copies)

      The magic of this collection consists in the images it projects in reader's mind. Annarita's poetry is free from banal remembrances and useless moralism. Fast flash dip the reader in the atmosphere of our days, aware of daily life, and all those modern problem, like drug, for example, superficiality, violence and loneliness. And these twenty-six poetries, all tied by a social background to underline the demand of a lyric adherent to the reality.

      However, in Annarita's poetry, there is also a subtle and destroyer humour: destroyer of false myths, like the modern journalism, the hero's myth,

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