Cristina Corda

Performance and book · 2025

What lies within the unconscious

Poetic notes of a soul

The performance

The performance

Premiere

22 February 2025

Teatro Verdi, Fiorenzuola d’Arda

Teatro Verdi, Fiorenzuola d’Arda22 February 2025

Franca Tragni · from the preface

The book

What lies within the unconscious

Poetic notes of a soul

This little book was born from the theatre monologue of the same name. It hopes to lead whoever makes it their own into the beauty of life, and into an awareness of their own precious essence.

Published
April 2025
Preface
Franca Tragni
Cover
Photo by Michele Castagnetti
Design
Cristina Corda, Piervito Aresta
Where to find it
To get a copy, write to Cristina: contact form

1. darkness

From the book

Inside the book

A few pages, laid out as in the book.

4. perfettamente così

Ascolta
Osserva
Respira lo STUPORE

Ti spalancherà gli occhi sull’invisibile
Meravigliati

Cogli le ANOMALIE

I segnali celesti, le coincidenze
Non
Sono
Coincidenze

FACCI CASO

Non è un caso

Arriverai alla VERITÀ

All’umile e sovrano ES

Abbandonati al flusso, come in un SALTO nel buio

SENZA PAURA

4. perfectly as you are

Listen
Observe
Breathe in the WONDER

It will open your eyes wide to the invisible
Marvel

Catch the ANOMALIES

The heavenly signs, the coincidences
Are
Not
Coincidences

TAKE NOTICE

It is no accident

You will reach the TRUTH

The humble and sovereign ID

Let yourself go with the flow, as in a LEAP into the dark

WITHOUT FEAR

E potrai assaporare te
Senza maschere

Sei
Semplicemente

SEI TU

Con la POTENZA dell’universo nelle vene
E sei musica e sei danza
E sei poesia e sei dipinto
E sei silenzio e sei dolcezza
E sei preghiera e sei urlo

TU
PUOI

Tu diventi un CAPOLAVORO

In infiniti capolavori
Sono nell’inconscio
Che c’ho dentro

And you will taste yourself
Without masks

You are
Simply

YOU ARE YOU

With the POWER of the universe in your veins
And you are music and you are dance
And you are poetry and you are painting
And you are silence and you are sweetness
And you are prayer and you are a cry

YOU
CAN

You become a MASTERPIECE

In infinite masterpieces
They are in the unconscious
I carry within

Pages 14–15

E poi, voi credete davvero che gli uccelli cantino solo per gli altri uccelli?1

Silenzio
Sento il rumore delle mie emozioni
Dentro
Dentro, il fuoco vibra

Fiamma che spaventa ed attrae, che ipnotizza e culla, che arde divampa e brucia

Ora c’è, ora non c’è
Brucia
Fuoco sacro ed insostituibile

L’armonia del cosmo ha bisogno del mio e del tuo tassello

TUM TUM TUM

1 James Hillman, Il codice dell’anima. Adelphi edizioni, 1997, pag. 197

And then, do you really believe that birds sing only for other birds?1

Silence
I hear the noise of my emotions
Inside
Inside, the fire trembles

A flame that frightens and attracts, that hypnotises and lulls, that blazes, flares and burns

Now it’s here, now it’s gone
It burns
Sacred, irreplaceable fire

The harmony of the cosmos needs my piece, and yours

THUMP THUMP THUMP

1 James Hillman, The Soul’s Code (Italian edition: Adelphi, 1997), p. 197

Page 20

Ed uccello
E felino
Voglio impastare tutto ed essere io
IO

PERFETTO AMALGAMA DI NATURA, DIVINO E DUBBI

Di emozioni travolgenti
Intense e vere
Voglio essere felice come un raggio di sole
Come un’onda del mare
Voglio essere capace di essere dentro
Dentro al respiro del mondo

And bird
And feline
I want to knead it all together and be me
ME

A PERFECT AMALGAM OF NATURE, THE DIVINE AND DOUBTS

Of overwhelming emotions
Intense and true
I want to be happy like a ray of sunshine
Like a wave of the sea
I want to be able to be inside
Inside the breath of the world

Ed è una bellissima idea

And it is a beautiful idea

La mia anima è un petalo di cielo

My soul is a petal of sky

Pages 74–75

The poems