Abandoning the poetic verse that had made her so famous for a sincere and ruthless poetic prose constituted of short, brilliant aphorisms, Alda Merini delivers to these pages something that is more than a testament: she gives to us a face-to-face confrontation with her entire existence. Thanks to Merini’s astounding ability of mixing up words obscure in appearance with very tangible feelings, devilish images with heavenly passages, we are given the chance to rediscover the meaning of life, in a prose which seems to escape any sense of logic, yet which offers a unique exploration of the human mind.

‘Merini’s astounding ability of mixing up words obscure in appearance with concrete feelings, devilish images with heavenly passages, defeats evil (that of the mind too) and gives back to us, on the page, where any sense of logic seems gone, the meaning of life’ – Maurizio Bonassina, ‘The World of Alda Merini, Neither Prose, Nor Poetry’, Il Corriere della Sera. 'The Easy Life collects in alphabetical order the impressions of a lifetime, that span from her experience in the asylum to her proverbial joie de vivre, from the fiery passion of love to old age, from the ECTs to the loneliness of her house in Milan. Abandoning the poetic verse that had made her so famous for a sincere and ruthless poetic prose constituted of short, brilliant aphorisms, Alda Merini delivers to these pages something that is more than a testament: a true day of reckoning, where she confronts face to face her entire existence.' - Affari Italiani (Italian Affairs) [website]