“It’s a contradiction but very real. There’s excitement and comfort holding Anita Olachea Bucci’s work in our hands. She was never keen on publishing a book. Cesare, her husband of sixty years, devoted to her talent, tried futilely many times. Then, in the last few months of her life, he and she discovered a silent pact: her resistance had dissolved. Her permission, indeed, her wish to send her poetry into the world, was a need they shared. With him at her side, they looked at the work poem by poem, discussed meanings, and struggled to find the order to put them in.”

– Wallis Wilde Menozzi