Grazia Valente – Prinp Editoria d'Arte

Grazia Valente LA RAGAZZA DALLA VITA DI VESPA

Dario — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:21:46 +0000

Do not give in to fashion, do not submit to the market, do not abjure your principles and your literary creed. A difficult choice, but the uncompromising poet does not work for himself, but for poetry and poetry is a free space, where you can sail in the open sea, under a sky without borders,
This volume collects lyrics taken from previous collections published over a thirty-year period, lyrics that, in the author’s opinion, best represent her inner universe and towards which she feels a particular emotional harmony.
Between autobiography and reflections on life and death, the author explores the classic themes of poetry of all time such as: love, the passing of time, old age and death, without shying away from reflection on what it is, and what it means, to be or feel like a poet. The disenchantment and bitterness that shine through in the verses of many lyrics are nonetheless mitigated by a style that assumes the lightness and freshness of the verse and the image as an element of an often joyfully ironic and musically valuable spontaneity.
The overall result is a polyphonic concert that uses words and images, sounds and visions, a mirror that is sometimes clear and sometimes blurry of life itself.
An unreleased piece completes the collection.

Grazia Valente was born in Turin, where she lives.
She is the author of prose and poems, some of which have been awarded and published in magazines and anthologies.
In 1999 she won the national Haiku Contest prize promoted by the Japanese Cultural Institute (Rome). One of her stories, winner of a R.A.I. competition, was broadcast on the radio and included in an anthology (Edizioni ERI).
Some of her poems have been set to music by the Duo Pizzulli. (voice, piano and violin).
The contemporary artist Chen Li has graphically interpreted some poems taken from various published and unpublished collections.
She currently collaborates with Letizia Gariglio’s online periodical Parole in rete.
Works:
with the publishing house Portaparole the following have been published:
“Il poeta” (The poet), 2012 and “Fillide amorosa”, 2013.
With the publisher Achille e La Tartaruga:
“Ambaradonna”, 2015; “La fatal quiete” (The fatal quiet), 2017; “Se un filo d’erba basta a farti ombra” (If a blade of grass is enough to cast a shadow on you), 2018; “Galleria delle bellezze – Ritratti femminili in forma di collage” (Gallery of beauties – Female portraits in the form of collages), 2018; “All’ombra dello zen – 99 microracconti” (In the shadow of zen – 99 micro-stories), 2019; “Haiku dei timidi passi” (Haiku of timid steps), 2021; “A proposito di Thomas B. – viaggio nel labirinto della scrittura di Thomas Bernhard” (About Thomas B. – a journey into the labyrinth of Thomas Bernhard’s writing), 2022.
With Prinp Editore: “Il sogno – poesie di Grazia Valente – opere di Chen Li” (The dream – poems by Grazia Valente – works by Chen Li), 2022; “Il tempo che rimane” (The time that remains), 2024.

Grazia Valente IL TEMPO CHE RIMANE

Dario — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 14:01:00 +0000

“The bitter season of analysis has opened without warning” writes the author in one of the poems in her latest collection. With a secular spirit and without ever abandoning her ironic gaze, the author crosses the interior places that most impact her present: poetry, love, self-awareness and the passage of time, up to the threshold of that Elsewhere that accompanies us since birth.
Every moment of the present intersects with that dark time that we call Infinity, which we look at with fear, curiosity, fatalism or, simply, clear awareness, while the time that remains urges us not to lower the sails yet.

Grazia Valente was born in Turin, where she lives.
She is the author of prose and poems, some of which have been awarded and published in magazines and anthologies.
In 1999 she won the national Haiku Contest prize promoted by the Institute of Japanese Culture (Rome). One of his stories, winner of a RAI competition, was broadcast on radio and included in an anthology (ERI Editions).
Some poems were set to music by the Pizzulli Duo (voice, piano and violin).
Contemporary artist Chen Li graphically interpreted some poems taken from various published and unpublished collections.
He currently collaborates with Letizia Gariglio’s online periodical “Parole in rete”.
The following have been published with the Portaparole Publishing House:
“Il poeta” (The poet) 2012 and “Fillide amorosa” 2013.
With the publisher Achille e La Tartaruga:
“Ambaradonna” 2015; “La fatal quiete” (The fatal quiet) 2017; “Se un filo d’erba basta a farti ombra” (If a blade of grass is enough to shade you) 2018; “Galleria delle bellezze (ritratti femminili in forma di collage)” (Gallery of Beauties – Female portraits in collage form) 2018; “All’ombra dello zen – 99 microracconti” (In the shadow of Zen – 99 micro-stories) 2019; “Haiku dei timidi passi” (Haiku of the timid steps) 2021; “A proposito di Thomas B. – viaggio nel labirinto della scrittura di Thomas Bernhard” (About Thomas B. – journey into the labyrinth of Thomas Bernhard’s writing) 2022.
With Prinp Editore she published “Il sogno. Poesie di Grazia Valente e opere di Chen Li” (The Dream. Poems by Grazia Valente and works by Chen Li) 2022.

Chen Li – Grazia Valente IL SOGNO

Dario — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 14:07:15 +0000

“Il sogno” is a real artist’s book created by the artist Chen Li with poems by Grazia Valente.
“Il sogno” belongs to our reality, both in relation to psychic activity, which occurs during sleep, and in the more prosaic one of aspiration, desire often relegated to the sphere of the impossible. “Il sogno” can also be considered as a protected area, an interior space to be guarded and preserved, a place to wait for an event that often appears nebulous and difficult to decipher, but which we do not want to give up.
In these compositions, drawn from various collections published since 2012, the theme of the dream has been declined in various ways, depending on the mood at the time of inspiration. And often with an ironic streak, characteristic of my way of understanding – and doing – poetry.