Un recueil de poèmes de l'artiste Tiziana La Melia.
I Come from a Long Line of People Who Don't Use Words includes a selection of poems from Tiziana La Melia's first two books of poetry and a new body of work titled The Simple Life, which focuses on collective healing through food preparation and magic culinary therapies.
The formation of the book was the result of a dedicated collaboration between the author, the editor Sonia D'Alto, and the contributors Federica Bueti, Claudia Gangemi, and Elisa Ferrari. The editor, in her text, mentions the collaborative process: "By diluting and postponing work plans and distilling desires into semantic concerns, the roles of editor, translator, author, and proofreader at times eroded, becoming sensitive to the possibilities of multiple voices, reciprocity, and collective decision making."
The English title of the publication, I Come from a Long Line of People Who Don't Use Words, refers to the author's inheritance. This heritage includes experiences of instability, migration, and rural culture in Southern Italy. The author depicts this subaltern condition in both urban and rural settings, specifically Vancouver and the Okanagan Valley, where the poet lives.
La Melia's artistic practice is influenced by surrealism, automatism, pop culture, and various forms of mystical counterculture. She follows a lineage of political and spiritual experiments that challenge modern cultural heritage and familial structures. This lineage is related to an aesthetic of psychedelic storytelling, therapies, and ecstatic experiences that help to reimagine reality.
The Publication also comprises a graphic design insert of The Simple Life by Roxanne Maillet, the Editor's Note: How to write a garden, how to eat a syntax, how to read the new moon by Sonia D'Alto, A Secret-Gushing-Cunt-Filled Garden by Allison Grimaldi Donahue and What Gets Through the Gaps of the Grid by Federica Bueti.
Tiziana La Melia (née en 1982 à Palerme, Italie) est une artiste et une auteure qui a grandi dans un verger sur les territoires Syilx / Okanagan au sud de la Colombie-Britannique, au Canada. Elle travaille avec de nombreux médiums tels que la peinture, la poésie, la sculpture, le collage et le dessin. Oscillant entre représentations et abstractions, ses travaux explorent les potentialités du langage, entrelaçant le genre de l'autofiction et une pensée plus vaste sur l'archétype féminin.
