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<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In her </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Serie fossile </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>(</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Fossil Series</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>) acclaimed Italian writer Maria Grazia Calandrone transforms the metaphorical spectrum connected to the idea of fossil by turning it -and the process necessary to create it- into the very essence of love. Love is at the core of the entire collection as the author herself suggests on the back cover: </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Serie fossile </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is a poem about love from the miracle of its birth to the agony of its end. Love then is surrender entailing the complete opening up to the other (</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>ready to be inhabited</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>) and irremediable transformation a rebirth from which there is no going back. - Beppe Cavatorta</span></p>