A random collection of over 1910 books and audiobooks authored by or about my transgender, intersex sisters, and gender-nonconforming persons all over the world. I read some of them, and I was inspired by some of them. I met some of the authors and heroines, some of them are my best friends, and I had the pleasure and honor of interviewing some of them. If you know of any transgender biography that I have not covered yet, please let me know.
2020,
Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto,
Italian,
Original title: "Dove non siamo stati" (Where we haven't been) by Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto.
The transition, which in the verses of "Minimal Pain" is sexual, becomes here an indispensable existential datum to be able to move forward. A poem of ghosts and farewells, of abandoned houses, of realities kept only in the memory of those who remain, in the games left by children in the courtyards of childhood.
A sense of conclusion pervades her tight verses, the definitive one that always precedes change. An end that must be investigated in the most painful moments, before giving way to the new reality that knocks on the doors. A universal and authentic poetic result, in which personal experience is transfigured to welcome the experience of each one, questioning a void in which, on closer inspection, we have always been. With a preface by Roberta Dapunt and a critical note by Alberto Bertoni.
Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto was born in Sicily in 1994. She currently lives in Rome, where she graduated from Sapienza University with a degree in modern philology. Dolore Minimo (Minimal Pain), published in 2018, is her first book, and the first collection of Italian poetry to address the subject of transsexuality. With an introduction by Dacia Maraini and an afterword by Alessandro Fo, the book was featured in Italy’s major newspapers and won several prizes, including the Viareggio Opera Prima in 2019 for best debut.
In February 2020, BUR Rizzoli published Giovanna’s second book of poems, Dove non siamo stati (Where We Have Not Been).
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