"...Often viewed as the voice of memory, or even as the material place of memory, within the silence of diaspora, the diasporic object is forged by our poet into a cultural icon capable of preserving and rewriting the historical consciousness of its custodian's community. [...] Ciardullo Villapiana's poetry is thus able to save these objects from the encroaching postmodern spectre of disquiet and obsolescence with its ensuing inalterable oblivion. The object becomes as well for her, as indeed it is for its keepers, a metaphor for literature. In the sense that even if we are no longer able to visit the object's initial place, its roots, its original spark, we can still tell a story about it, we can still make it live through language and narrative. And that is literature..." Gabriel Niccoli, St. Jerome's University, University of Waterloo "...Proprio per l'architettura a più livelli, il progetto realizzato da questo libro è ambizioso e innovativo. Le narrazioni diasporiche diventano qui generatrici di scritture che si influenzano e si richiamano a vicenda, come variazioni esecutive che confluiscono in un'orchestrazione polifonica..." Margherita Ganeri, Università della Calabria