A Poet I've Never Heard Of: Alda Merini

Alda Merini put a lot of poetry and other writings into this world, but it is hard to find a lot of it translated! Below you will find both poems and aphorisms, or as Merini called them "spells of the night."

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Alda Merini A poet made of love, sorrow, freedom and madness - Virginia Elena Patrone

And then make love. – Pittiesisi

Tuesday Poem: I am not resigned, Edna St Vincent Millay

Overlooked No More: Alda Merini, Poet Who Wrote of Life's Joys and Struggles - The New York Times

Bedside Lamps – Brief Poems by Martial

Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: January 2017

Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini by Susan Stewart

Alda Merini A poet made of love, sorrow, freedom and madness - Virginia Elena Patrone

Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: January 2017

Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini by Susan Stewart

10 Best Italian Poems with English Translation - Travel Rome like a local

Why Gucci's New Creative Director Counts Princess Diana Among His Muses - The New York Times

I Need Silence - Alda Merini's Poem:Ho bisogno di silenzio Translated from Italian by: Bitsip Sipbit

Alda Merini in Translation

Alda Merini A poet made of love, sorrow, freedom and madness - Virginia Elena Patrone