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The Kintsugi Poet: a Memoir – Blood Memory, Family Secrets, and Identity: a Memoir of Blood Memory, Family Secrets, and Identity
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The Kintsugi Poet: A Memoir - Blood Memory, Family Secrets, and Identity
Mirella Di Benedetto writing as Anna Verduci
In this searing and formally ambitious memoir, Mirella Di Benedetto recounts a life fractured by institutional silence, familial secrecy, and cultural shame. The Kintsugi Poet is a deeply introspective narrative of adoption, identity, trauma, healing, and the relentless search for truth amid systemic and cultural erasure.
Born into concealment and raised under a false name in 1960s Australia, the author embarks on a decades-long journey of reconstruction - legal, genetic, and emotional. What begins as a private investigation gradually unfolds into a philosophical excavation of family, loss, and the inheritance of silence. From Melbourne to New York to Calabria, she confronts bureaucracies, bloodlines, and the ghosts of parents who never truly arrived.
Structured as a mosaic of fragments - memory shards, state documents, half-truths, and recovered voices - the memoir resists conventional narrative arcs in favour of emotional and structural authenticity. It is a work of literary memoir in the truest sense: formally precise, thematically layered, and ethically uncompromising.
The title draws from the Japanese art of kintsugi, in which broken pottery is mended with golden lacquer. Rather than conceal the fractures, Di Benedetto honours them - rendering a life not as a wound, but as a vessel made luminous through reassembly.
With a background in psychology and research, the author brings deep insight into the emotional logic of trauma, attachment, and repair.
The Kintsugi Poet is a luminous and deeply moving memoir that will resonate with anyone who has ever felt lost, broken, or searching for their place in the world. It is a powerful reminder of the enduring strength of the human spirit and the redemptive power of love, acceptance, determination, and self-understanding.
Mirella Di Benedetto writing as Anna Verduci
In this searing and formally ambitious memoir, Mirella Di Benedetto recounts a life fractured by institutional silence, familial secrecy, and cultural shame. The Kintsugi Poet is a deeply introspective narrative of adoption, identity, trauma, healing, and the relentless search for truth amid systemic and cultural erasure.
Born into concealment and raised under a false name in 1960s Australia, the author embarks on a decades-long journey of reconstruction - legal, genetic, and emotional. What begins as a private investigation gradually unfolds into a philosophical excavation of family, loss, and the inheritance of silence. From Melbourne to New York to Calabria, she confronts bureaucracies, bloodlines, and the ghosts of parents who never truly arrived.
Structured as a mosaic of fragments - memory shards, state documents, half-truths, and recovered voices - the memoir resists conventional narrative arcs in favour of emotional and structural authenticity. It is a work of literary memoir in the truest sense: formally precise, thematically layered, and ethically uncompromising.
The title draws from the Japanese art of kintsugi, in which broken pottery is mended with golden lacquer. Rather than conceal the fractures, Di Benedetto honours them - rendering a life not as a wound, but as a vessel made luminous through reassembly.
With a background in psychology and research, the author brings deep insight into the emotional logic of trauma, attachment, and repair.
The Kintsugi Poet is a luminous and deeply moving memoir that will resonate with anyone who has ever felt lost, broken, or searching for their place in the world. It is a powerful reminder of the enduring strength of the human spirit and the redemptive power of love, acceptance, determination, and self-understanding.
- Publisher: Verduci Fili D'Oro Press
- Dimensions: 15.24 x 2.79 x 22.86 cm
- Language: English
- Print length: 440 pages
- Item weight: 585 g
- Book Type: Paperback
- ISBN-10: 1764132319
- ISBN-13: 978-1764132312
- Publication date: 24 July 2025
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