Giovanna Campo

Another life 

pop poems

If you think of poetry as something rhetorical and dusty, far away from reality and the facts of common life, this book will change your mind. With fascinating and very readable verses, the author tells her story of ordinary familiar cruelty and the route to escape from the unfortunate life to which she seemed irreparably destined to. An amazing succession of images and circumstances, figures and characters, daily truths, moments of the memory picked with sensibility and inventive originality capture the readers, holding their attention high till an unexpected epilogue.

Giovanna Campo was born in Milan, where she lives and practises the medical profession. After the birth of two children and the end of her marriage, in a successive relation she had experienced moral violence and oppression. Since that difficult experience and the route of emancipation from the affective dependency, Another life was born, her first collection of poems, an open testimony that the author dedicates to all women and to men who know how to listen to them.