The poetic sylloge that dissects the heart. This is the book of Viola Lo Moro, published by Giulio Perrone Publisher. In these poems the author addresses important issues concerning affection, family, relationships, feelings, fears, suffering; she does it through a cutting poetic, which splits the heart as if she were performing a surgical operation. Hence the title: "Cheerful heart".
The question that emerges from the lyrics is: can the human heart really be a “Merry Heart”? Sometimes we rejoice and sometimes we suffer, and often the pains come from those who said they loved us.
In Viola Lo Moro's powerful and rough poems intense metaphors chase each other between the verses, and sometimes the sufferings are not only emotional but physical, caused by pins, scissors and metal tools, symbols of the painful daily struggles of human beings. It is absolutely not easy to continue to inhabit the world and maintain a happy heart while going through loneliness, experiencing the death of others, surviving existential boredom and the screeching of the soul, but it is an attempt that deserves to be made, as long as the heart keeps beating.
Synopsis
The anatomical heart is divided into four chambers. This poetic collection tells the story of four rooms united by the presence – at different temperatures – of an embodied feeling, which persists in detecting the roughness of passing time, unsolvable conflicts and abandonments.
The first and last section are linked together by a search for approaching a precarious identity of theI narrator: dreams, family memories, names, houses. The poetic word obsessively revolves around everything that does not constitute a solid ego and takes the form of concrete objects and images (animals, electric wires, shopping lists, bowels) as if to reveal - by contrast - their transience. Everything therefore exists except identity, even if – precisely in this epidermal approximation – it is finally possible to trace a shattered mirror mosaic of a perpetual search.
The middle two sections deal with affections and relationships. The second chamber is that of the relationship with some precise moments in which the poet witnessed the passage of a loved one from life to death. The contrasts between light and shadow dominate, time is marked by wind-up watches and drip drops. The heart slows down.
In the third room the narrator confronts the bodies immersed in the sensual and loving dimension. Alongside the living flesh of acts of love, as if by juxtaposition, a laceration emerges given by the constant abandonment of a common perspective. Back again solitude in the city as a dimension built in contrast with the desire to inhabit that space of feelings and time together.
Biography
Viola Lo Moro was born in Rome on December 20, 1985. She graduated in modern and contemporary literature and specialized in comparative literature. She is one of the members of the women's bookshop in Rome, Tuba, of which she takes care of the programming. She is, together with others, creator and organizer of the festival of writers "InQuiete". She has written and writes articles for literary and feminist magazines (Legendaria, DWF, Letterate Magazine, Femministerie).
