Monique Emme was born in the South of Italy early '71. She move to Bologna in 1989, where she graduated at DAMS with a dissertation about connections between Irish Rock and Irish poetry and literature and then have been working as music journalist for national and web magazine and as editor for Radio Città Del Capo. She then moved to Genoa in 2004, working mostly as manager and booking agent for bands, and living for months period also London and Berlin. She's been writing poetry and songs from teenage years. Her main inspiration comes from travels and people and relationships so frequent because of main job. Favorite writers: Albert Camus (prose) and Pablo Neruda (poetry) .
I wont give up
until we'll be sitting quietly
under a tree
in pale sunlight
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Il caffè che gorgoglia
i bips della posta
le richieste di amicizia
i mozziconi
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I need buckets of colors
to turn these walls
from brown
to white, bright blue and orange.
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