Mariella Bettarini

From the book by Mariella Bettarini “Balestrucci. Un racconto in versi”
(Firenze, Edizioni Gazebo, 2006)

Here come the eggs – here come
they are five also this time – in the tender – in the warmth –
(…)
and therefore together
they raise to flight a morning – together
they stamp their pens towards
the light – in the vertigo
of the turned upside down abyss
together they go
now they fly upwards…BIOGRAPHY

Mariella Bettarini was born in Florence in 1942, where she still resides. In 1973 she founded the review “Salvo imprevisti” and in 1984, with Gariella Maleti, the Gazebo editions.

Presently she has contributed to the anthology “The defiant muse. Italian feminist poems from the middle ages to the present” a bilingual anthology, edited by Beverly Allen, Muriel Kittel and Keala Jane Jewell ; introduction by Beverly Allen, New York, The Feminist Press, 1986.