NADIA CAVALERA

Bio-bibliographical notes

Born in the province of Salento, at Galatone on 20th September 1950, she graduated in Philosophy from Lecce, on 28th February 1974, with high marks alI round and a thesis on Marx (“Democracy and Socialism in the young Marx”). At 23 years of age, after a brief yet intense period of political activism as a member of the Italian Communist Party, she moved first to Torchiarolo, and later to Brindisi for family reasons. It was here, during the 1980s when she had already become a full-time schoolteacher, that she returned to her cultural commitments, working closely with the Salentine paper ‘Quotidiano’ as a publicist. She has lived and taught in Modena since 1988.

A poet and an essayist, she is also involved in the strictly artistic field to which she has contributed numerous verbal/visual works and catalogues dedicated to ‘Allegorical Superrealism’, the definition of her own personal poetics. Not only was she the founder of Gheminga, the first exc1usively literary review of Brindisi, since 1990, together with the poet Edoardo Sanguineti, she has edited Bollettari a quarterly review of criticaI writings, as part of the cultural association Le avanguardie) which offers a new concept of the avant-garde: non-elitist and most importantly ongoing, in constant progresso

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I palazzi di Brindisi (1986), historical tales, introduced by Marcello Strazzeri;
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Amsirutuf:enimma (1988), verbal/visual work presented by Adriano Spatola;
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Vita Novissima (1992), 101 poems/prose passages, a manifesto of “Allegorical Superrealism”;
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Americanata (1993) 31 poems in American English under the pseudonym ofMarie Donna Lancaster;
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I prestanomi: uomini senza (1993), verbal/visual work;
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Superrealismo allegorico (1993), 1^st catalogue of the style (edited by Filomena Cascarano),
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Ecce Femina (1994), presented by Marcello Carlino, 101 poems in Latin, under the pseudonym of Annia Aurelia Galeria Lumilla Augusta;
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Stundaia (1995), a collection ofa number ofher early works in 60 haiku,
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(‘Imprespressioni’, ‘Adriana’, ‘Sospensioni’, ‘Golphe de Genes ‘);
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Nottilabio (1995), 51 short stories presented by Giorgio Celli (1996 finalist at the Premio Feronia);
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Superrealismo allegorico (1995, 2^nd catalogue ofthe style (edited by Antonia Maria Monteduro),
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Brogliasso (1996), presented by Giorgio Barberi Squarotti, (1997 finalist at the Premio Feronia and at the 1999 Premio Anterem);
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La città della luna (1997), verbal/visual work;
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Superrealismo allegorico (1997), 3^rd catalogue ofthe style (edited by Apollonia Fachechi);
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Superrealismo allegorico (1999), 4^th catalogue ofthe style (edited by Antonia de Bellis);
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Salentudine (Marsilio, Venezia 2004), 103 limericks in Galatonian dialect.
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Superrealisticallegoricamente (Fermenti, Roma 2005), poems and verbal/visual works
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Spoesie (Fermenti, Roma 2010)
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Corso Canalchiaro 26 (Marsilio, Venezia 2010);
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L’astutica ergocratica (Joker, Novi Ligure 2011)
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Umafeminità. Cento poet* per un’innovazione linguistico-letteraria. (antologia a cura di), ( (Joker, Novi Ligure 2’024)

She has also featured in numerous anthologies.