Description
CATANIA, ONE-WAY TICKET
Book Summary
Catania, one-way ticket is a poetic and visual work born from the experience of a trip to the Sicilian city of Catania. Based on photographic images taken in 2001, the project transforms into a collection of postcards that combine text and image to capture the essence of the city. Each postcard becomes a memory that can be sent, tracing a visual and textual journey through the urban fabric. The reader will find an intimate and evocative look at daily life, social spaces, and the passage of time in a Mediterranean city, presented through a dialogue between photography and poetry.
What is it about?
The book stems from an idea by Anton Roca, who, following a visit to Catania invited by gallery owner Rosanna Musumecci, captured a series of photographic images of the city. These images, converted into postcards, are completed with poetic texts to be sent successively. The collection reconstructs the itinerary followed by the author through the urban fabric, portraying places significant to the social life of Catania. The images reflect everyday events, testimonies of exceptional occurrences, an ironic look at a past time of progress now vanished, or the stimulus received upon encountering the weathered wall of a house. The work invites a sensory and reflective tour of the city, where word and photograph complement each other to offer a unique aesthetic and narrative experience.
Main themes
- Travel and urban experience as a source of poetic and visual creation.
- Memory and the passage of time reflected in the architecture and social life of a city.
- The interaction between photographic image and poetic text as a means of artistic expression.
- Everyday life and social spaces as settings for observation and reflection.
- Irony and a critical gaze toward progress and urban transformation.
Who is it recommended for?
This book is recommended for lovers of visual poetry and artistic photography, readers interested in travel literature with a poetic and reflective focus, and those seeking works that explore the relationship between image and word. It is also ideal for those who appreciate publishing proposals that combine different artistic languages to create a unique reading experience.
What this book offers
- A reading experience that fuses poetry and photography to explore a city from an intimate and personal perspective.
- A poetic and critical look at urban life, the passage of time, and collective memory.
- An original format that turns images into postcards, inviting the reader to participate in sending and sharing memories.
- A reflection on how everyday spaces can be a source of artistic inspiration.
Technical specifications
- Author: ROCA, ANTON; AREVALO, ANTONIO; MICHI, FRAN
- Publisher: COSSETANIA
- Language: Catalan
- Subject: Poetic anthologies (various poets)
- Collection: La gent del llamp (varia)
- Binding: Paperback
- Edition date: May 2011
- Number of pages: 51
- Weight: 82 g
Editorial review
Catania, one-way ticket is a unique editorial proposal that combines poetry and photography to offer a personal and evocative vision of the Sicilian city. Its postcard format and the brevity of its 51 pages make it an accessible and suggestive work, ideal for readers seeking literary experiences that transcend the written text. The collaboration between the authors and the ironic and reflective gaze on urban space add value to this work, which may interest both followers of contemporary poetry and fans of artistic photography and travel literature.