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The roses that weren't our roses: letters of Sibilla Aleramo and Dino Campana.

From: The Literary Review  |  Date: 6/22/2002  |  Author: Proctor, Minna

   From even more distant silences, 
   Golden far-away birds tinted in different colors 
   Crossed and recrossed in the powder blue evening: the ship 
   Already blind plowing ahead beating against the darkness 
   With our shipwrecked hearts 

--DINO CAMPANA

On a serene August morning in rural Tuscany in the year 1916, Rina Faccio, a.k.a. Sibilla Aleramo, self-styled feminist, romancer of some repute, and author of the scandalous autobiography, Una donna, met and fell in love ...

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