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Hello, hello (a song starts in my mind, actually a couple of songs, overlapping each other)… this is a small update to share with you the excitement about the book California Notebook coming out soon!
I’m doing some “sort of “ last minute countdown on the date the book will be available to all on the internet and on the best libraries! Being Italian this book had to be published in Italy, a country that loves approximations, and I myself I’m not a number lover, I must admit. I will make sure to tell you when that is.
Meanwhile, as God has his mysterious ways and the universe moves in spite of us, it turns out that I’ve been invited to launch my book by the Comune of Arcore, the city counsel of the small town I’m from, where I grew my wings before starting to fly all over the world. Isn’t this absolutely karmic? I got chills when I started to see the picture. We always start from the roots no matter how large into the clouds our branches are.
Hopefully those kids that grew up with me will show up and we’ll have some kind of planned from above reunion, yes, because my mom and I keep on running into people I’ve not seen in decades. My heart is overflowing. Shortly after I will leave my hometown to fly back to California to gather more inspiration and serenity, to breath deeply and to warm my bones in the sun.
Anyhow here is a little spoiler: the book will be filled with poetry on silence and the beauty of life, counting 80 poems! It will come out first as paperback then as hardback cover too and e-book. Not sure what your preferences are, if you let me know I’ll be delighted…
I’m so happy to be able to share this awesome book (so some of my super-fans say) with you. I will fill you in with details soon.
Dedicated to those people whose soul wants to rise and blossom.
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Small update: California Notebooks il libro
Hello, hello (una canzone parte nella mia testa, in effetti un paio si sovrappongono)… questo è un piccolo update per condividere con voi la mia felicità per l’uscita imminente del libro California Notebooks/Quaderni californiani!
Sto facendo una “specie di count-down” per la data di quando il libro sarà disponibile on line e nelle migliori librerie! Dico “specie” perché ben sappiamo che in Italia, dove ho pubblicato questo libro (essendo italiana non avevo scelta per questioni fiscali), si amano le approssimazioni su date e orari. Io stessa non sono molto precisa con i numeri, lo ammetto. Farò in modo di farvela sapere.
Nel frattempo, siccome Dio ha vie misteriose e l’universo continua a muoversi nonostante noi, salta fuori che il Comune di Arcore, paese da cui provengo, dove ho cresciuto le mie ali prima di volare in tutto il mondo, mi invita a fare il lancio del mio libro proprio lì. Non vi sembra assolutamente karmico? Mi è venuta la pelle d’oca quando ho cominciato a capire cosa stava succedendo. Si parte sempre dalle radici, indipendentemente da quanto alte nelle nuvole siano i nostri rami.
Spero che i ragazzini/e che sono cresciuti con me verranno e che avremo una specie di riunione organizzata dall’alto, sì, perché sia io che mia madre continuiamo ad incrociare persone che non avevo più visto da decadi. Il mio cuore è felice. Subito dopo volerò di nuovo in California per raccogliere nuova ispirazione e serenità, respirare a fondo e scaldarmi le ossa al sole.
Ad ogni modo ecco una piccola anticipazione: il libro sarà zeppo di poesie sul silenzio e sulla bellezza della vita, per essere esatti, 80 testi! Uscirà prima con la copertina morbida, poi rilegato e come e-book. Non sono sicura quali siano le vostre preferenze e mi piacerebbe saperle, scrivetemele, ve ne sarò grata…
Sono così felice di poter condividere con voi questo libro (come lo descrivono i miei super-fans) eccezionale. Vi aggiornerò presto con gli ultimi dettagli.
Dedicato a quelle persone la cui anima vuole crescere e fiorire.
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Photos by Michal Utterback
Anna, I will definitely buy your book. ~ I have a real fondness for paperback, but anything is fine. ~ Looking forward to it. ~ Still very much summer here in Riverside county…
Please bring some cooler weather and a bit of rain, please. 🙂
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All right, thank you for your comment and to let me know you will buy the book!!! Paperback will be the first one out, lucky you, I love paperback too 🙂 About rain I will try to bring some with me 😉 but not too much – it has rained for two months here, it’s so humid/cold! It feels like moss can grow up your calfs, LOL
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Truly excited for you Anna. As a former bookseller I love to hold a book in my hands
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Thank you Cornelia, I’m excited as well! You used to be a bookseller?! I’ve got such an attraction for bookstores and libraries and those Italian little stands with old books for sales…
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Yes, Anna, back than when I lived in Germany that was my passionate carrier, loved it. Than coming over here to the US 25 years ago, my passion turned into Photography
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Yes Anna, back than in Germany I had a passionate carrier as book seller. Than when I came over here to the US 25 years ago, my passion turned towards photography
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Me too. There is nothing better to feel like a great book of poetry, like Anna’s, in my hands. Then open it, smell the pages, and start tasting the poems. Congratulations Anna 🙂
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Alina, so grateful you are rejoicing with me! I count on feed back from you (what works and what doesn’t in you opinion) and from those faithful ones that have been cheering for me. Poems are the fruit of love, the love of those who write them and the love of those who take the time to taste them. That’s when they have the high vibration of beauty, when they are welcomed in. Thank you. 😀
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