Blurbs for DANCING WITH MARIA'S GHOST

“Alessandro Manzetti’s exquisite poems are séance arias of an adoring, mourning heart. Like fated souls, he and Maria Callas are a mystic duet; unveered by time.”
–Richard Christian Matheson

"Manzetti trips the dark fantastic with the ghost of Maria Callas in this collection, spinning the reader on the edges of ephemeral shadows with his masterful poetry. This mesmerizing book ends with a section of bonus uncollected verse that opens with a fantastic piece he wrote with Joe R. Lansdale."
–Linda D. Addison

"A darkly erotic ode to self-destruction and obsessive desire, Alessandro Manzetti’s “Dancing with Maria’s Ghost” pulls the reader into a world of madness and longing where “the strawberries of psychosis” evoked by the dead diva Maria Callas lure the narrator ever deeper into the void. From the yacht Skorpios, where Aristotle Onassis rendez-voused with the famed soprano, to stages across Europe where Callas seduced the world with her portrayals of Violetta, Salome, Manon Lescaut, and so many others, Manzetti’s poetry gives new and darker dimensions to the desire that lures the lover ever closer to the void. A collection of imagery both stunning and seductive, where oblivion calls as relentlessly as passion."
–Lucy Taylor

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