Ha degli occhi Stupendi!!!
very gentle and delicate, quite friendly.
The crowd was a little frozen, I was the only clapping hands once in a while, also said "Ciao!" and "Grazie!"
I've notes:
An interpreter was there and we were asked to Not take picturess or to ask about her music, wanted a poems-time only
180/200 people, not more. Then she came up on stage smiling. Cheered her. Then she explained the whole concept of the book and her trips with Seamus in Kosove and Afganistan. About this she said that is a place she always wanted to see
Kosovo:
On a dirt road
The abandoned village*
Chain Of keys
Dance on the mountain*
Where it begins
Afghanistan:
The Orange Monkey*
The guest room
Adhan
First shot*
The hand The beggars*
The boy*
An initiation*
Charikar
At the bird market*
The Glass*
Begging bowl*
then she introduced Washington D.C. session, looking for analogies between those places, 'cause that area has a leading role over there
African voices
Sight-seeing
To the oldes homo sapiens
On the corner of 1st and D*
Medicinals*
Throwing nothing
during performance photos displayed behind, after she recite poems were translated in italian, IMO with some little misunderstanding.
Best and longer session Afghanistan. My favourites *
cueing for signing met old and new friends. The book on sell was a paperback version, little. I had the Huge one!!!
she saw and said "Oh! is the big one!" and changed the pen with the silver one. she was very patient as I immediately Thank her for being there and the all the rest
I'm still on a natural high
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