Anny Ballardini obit

[jfor...@aol.com]

I only found out today that Anny died. And this sad news came via a friend I didn't even know knew Anny. Though I imagine, like me, my friend only knew Anny via various online poetry channels. I always thought we might cross paths in the real world...

Found this tribute to Anny...

https://franzmagazine.com/2021/01/11/anny-ballardini-your-last-translation/

[Jesse Glass]

I put a notice up earlier this year on Facebook.  She was wonderful.  Jesse

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[Amy King]

This is terribly sad news. Anny was such a wonderful, life-affirming person and poet. And so very kind. 

I'm sorry to read this tonight. 

Amy 

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[Amy King]

Just when you think you're alive

-for Anny Ballardini

Someone dies.

You loved her but she disappeared into the beauty of her country.

Her country absorbed her beauty.

The frescoes, the greens I have seen no where else, the paintings by masters unheard of by name, the poet saw them each in the days before everything ended.

Before everything stood beside itself.

The clocks stopped. The mirrors covered themselves. And all of Italy breathed in for a minute before life called itself back to attention.

[Evelyn Posamentier]

Oh James,

I’m not really on poetry lists much so I don’t know who mentioned what to whom. Anny died on January 7 of a very aggressive and fast non-small cell lung cancer.  Her birthday would be this coming Saturday. 

I miss her deeply, as I’m sure you do. She was very fond of you.

Evy

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[Skip Fox]

James, Jesse,

Somehow I missed Jesse's FB notification, but I had heard of it regardless.

Does anyone know of her art work with The Cantos, each Canto written out in full with illustrations/paintings?

What happened to these?

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[jfor...@aol.com]

Thanks, Jesse. Glad to see so many of Anny's friends expressing their fondness for her...
https://www.facebook.com/jesse.glass.9/posts/10158341270047183

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[jfor...@aol.com]

Thanks for sending this elegy, Amy.

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[jfor...@aol.com]

Thanks, Evy. I figured it was in January from this article in Italian from Bolzano, Italy... 

https://www.altoadige.it/cronaca/bolzano/addio-alla-poetessa-anny-ballardini-il-dolore-di-amici-e-allievi-1.2524084
I wish I could read Italian (more than recognizing every fifth word or so). But seems Henry Gould was interviewed therein.

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