This collection is inspired by several poems written by Wystan Hugh Auden, an English poet whose life, as we all know, was affected by the outbreak of various conflicts: we can recollect, for example, his famous poem “Funeral Blues” written for a friend who died in war. Another poem that should be mentioned and inspired this collection is the one that Auden wrote in memory of William Butler Yeats, who died in 1939, the year that the Second World War began and, as we all know, stained with blood first Europe and then the entire world.
In the poem “In memory of W.B. Yeats,” Auden writes “... In the nightmare of the dark, / All the dogs of Europe bark, / And the living nations wait, / Each sequestered in its hate;...”
These dramatic, intense lines express the horrendous nightmare that was soon to engulf Europe, lines that are unfortunately all too relevant today given the historical moment we are living at this time with the hateful war in Ukraine and the devastating situation in the Middle East.
Angela Caporaso was born in 1962 and she is a visual artist from Caserta (Italy). She has begun to take an interest in figurative arts since the eighties, exhibiting repeatedly both in Italy and abroad. Many of her works are part of public and private collection adding numerous publications to her credit. Angela Caporaso is focusing on visual poetry and artists books, working with collages, trash-art and, more recently, digital formats. http://www.angelacaporaso.com/
