9781912092512
Published in Italian in 1996 and now translated in English for the first time, The Easy Life is a long poetry in prose. It collects the impressions of a lifetime, which span from Merini’s  experience in psychiatric hospitals to her proverbial joie de vivre, from the ECTs to the loneliness of her house in Milan.
Abandoning the poetic verse that had made her so famous for the 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.