Lapo Melzi

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Lapo Melzi (Monza, 10 April 1975) is an Italian poet,writer and filmmaker. He grew up in a little town in the north of Italy and wenton to study writing and filmmaking in New York. He received his MFA from renownedNYU Tisch School of the Arts and now spends his time between the United Statesand Italy.

A Shadow in Yucatan

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<p>A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.</p><p>An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.</p><p>Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.</p><p>The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.</p>

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<span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;">"This is a really interesting collection... There's an engaging dialectic at play between the Italian and English versions of each poem which ends up making the whole more than the sum of its parts."</span><div><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;">"</span><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;">Parole come immagini, immagini come parole: e' la mia sintesi di questa splendida raccolta."</span></div>

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