Maria Consolo is a famous Italian poetess who was born in Catania, where she currently resides, since 1936. Her most important work is Coi macigni e l'erbe with which Maria Consolo won the prize Città di Cava. Some of her works are mention hereby:
Dacché Non Ci Sei
Fisso nel buio l'occhio rosso del televisore.
Non dormo, ma non smanio. Una strana
quiete mi possiede dacché non ci sei. Qualcosa
deve essersi fermato dentro, come succede a volte
alla mia sveglia. Chi mi scrollerà? Aspetto
meccanicamente domani. Nel buio mi fissa
l'occhio rosso del televisore.
Maria Consolo
Dacché Non Ci Sei
I stare the red eye of the television in the dark.
I do not sleep, but I do not stir. I have a strange
Stillness since you are not here. Something
Has been able to stay inside, as sometimes
Happens with my alarm. Who will make me move?
I waiting for the morning, the red eye
Of television is staring at me.
Maria Consolo