A woman alone at dawn on the summit of a real mountain: a miracle-working creature that transforms pain (one’s own) into healing (other people’s). A saint that speaks like an animal: a monkey, a wolf, a mother that stays in the background, because distance creates miracles. The things that happen in Sonia Bergamasco’s voice take place in the reckless bend between poetry and howling: her woman’s voice begins in human verse and ends in the neutrality of animal cries; or rather, it ends up honestly and joyfully in the direct song of nature.

Maria Grazia Calandrone