Archipelago

Antonella Anedda's poetry has a searing, disruptive quality, a hard-won honesty. Her words have the air of breaking the silence reluctantly, and they keep the silence with them. Though born in Rome, she comes from a Sardinian family. While her poems have a geographical sweep, there is also an insistence on domestic detail - balconies, crockery, sewing, cooking: elements often considered too humble to warrant poetic attention.