“His poetry is made to resist. And she does so by wielding caresses”. With these words, Paola Campinoti effectively summed up the profound meaning of Lucia Succi’s poetry collection, entitled “Adverse stars”, which will be presented on Saturday 10 May (5:45 p.m.) at the Ridotto del Teatro del Popolo. The presentation – in addition to the author – will be attended by the Mayor, Francesca Giannì, the Councillor for Culture, Franco Spina, and Paola Campinoti, who edited the preface of the volume published by Federighi editori. The evening will also include some musical pieces, performed by Alessio Montagnani
Exactly ten years after “Fragments of soul”, Lucia Succi thus proposes a new poetic collection (her third) in which, with clear and crystalline verses, she gives voice to children with “skinned knees”, to women who at nightfall are capable of rising “like the moon to dispel the shadows of joy”, to the “dancing leaf£ as the “breath of the world”, symbol of the essence of our being, of every being” (Campinoti).
“Mine,” Lucia Succi observes, “is a reflection on life, on the passage of time, on the observation of nature, on friendship, on the difficulties that each of us encounters on our journey”.
“Taking reality, looking it straight in the face,” observes Paola Campinoti, “contemplating it by painting it in words, making space in the brambles with bare hands, finding a gap, the famous gap of poetry, and transforming it into a new reality. This is what Lucia does, and this is what real poets do, those who do not play with words, trying unusual sound and semantic combinations, but distill every sound and every sense from drops of blood.”
“It is a pleasure”, stresses Councillor for Culture Franco Spina, “to present this new collection of poems by Lucia Succi, which sounds like a caress, like an unexpected comfort. “Adverse Stars” is a shelter that comes out of a pen that is sweet and strong at the same time and contains all the saving power of poetry. Another moment of beauty for Castelfiorentino, citadel of the arts, a place of thespians, musicians and poets. Lucia is a bit of all these things together”.
