Look mum it’s Ai
the number that escaped
the last of your sums, the figure
that doesn’t add up.
Chandra Livia Candiani
CHANDRA LIVIA CANDIANI's poetry has won the Montale Prize (2001), Camaiore Prize (2014) and International Regina Coppola Prize (2019). Her eight collections, including Ninnenanne per il mondo (Lullabies for the World, Vivarium), La bambina pugile (Boxer-girl, Einaudi) and Vista dalla luna (Viewed from the Moon, Salani) have touched thousands of Italian readers, but have yet to be translated internationally. Candiani runs poetry workshops in homeless shelters, AIDS hospices and elementary schools and curated and edited But Where Are the Words? Poems by the Children of Milan’s Ethnically Diverse Suburbs (Effigie 2015). Vista dalla luna is her first collection to deal entirely with the trauma of a difficult childhood, and addresses the themes of violence and alienation, both at home and at school.
