Me aniquila

No one has been able to delve into love and passion with such raw insight into its darker side—pain and madness, death and abandonment—as Alda Merini did. Considered one of the last mystical poets, her poetic genius awakened early, coinciding with her being subjected against her will to confinement in psychiatric institutions. From these experiences emerged some of the most moving verses in modern Italian poetry, written by a woman who became an emblem for the marginalized and the artists, the vagrants and the intellectuals.