The journalist and poet Michela Zanarella presents a poetic sylloge that makes you discover the beauty of dialogue with our conscience. The consciousness that is placed at the center of the light of man, which at times, does not stop in its purest greed, but constantly questions the deeds that it does daily.
A conscience, resumed by taking a retrospective journey through the depths of human action. A journey that is driven by its authoritative pen, and leads us to observe that light that perhaps we have not yet frankly known. On the contrary, we care about living according to actions and passions that do not satisfy the questions posed by the conscience, but only feed an unhealthy contentment. A silloge, that of Michela Zanarella, divided into 90 pages of pure reflection. In his verses, and I hope not to affirm something that distorts with the sense set by the author herself, I see the ideological incipit that was sought in the period that we all know as "decadentism". That is, that poetic branch, which saw Paul Verlaine as the forefather of a research work that had to find the bases of union between soul and behavior. In my opinion, some poems written by Zanarella also represent the constant search for what Alcmeone da Crotone, philosopher of antiquity, wanted to find in the union of elements such as soul, body and spirit. Where the union of these elements produced a moral behavior and a completely different ethical vision unlike when one of them was detached from the context. This, for the Crotone philosopher, a follower of the Pythagorean school, could lead, if the elements were not aligned, to illness, understood as a feeling of the soul. The invitation of Michela Zanarella, with this collection is to be taken on the fly, because we cannot afford the luxury of remaining "firm and eager to listen", like the mannequins, given that unlike them we are endowed with thought, of what Descartes defined in his habit, "Cogito, ergo sum", that is to say: <>. We leave this task to the mannequins we see in the showrooms, instead we try to free the courage to question ourselves, through the light of our soul, helping us also with the collection of the Paduan poet. Instinct Elsewhere is a poetic anthology inserted within the ‘Series of Pearls of Poetry’, directed by Roberto Carnero for Giuliano Ladolfi Editore. An easy to read 90-page style composition, with poems like: We are free to hear; The light does not stop. Inside the anthology there is a preface edited by Dacia Maraini, an Italian writer of other cultural profile. A deep and particular collection, therefore, that puts love and its universal concept at the center.