Odessa special event@Arco Cimone - Gioja del Colle

Sunday, July 5, 2026, at 7 PM at Arco Cimone, Gioia del Colle (Ba), special event for the presentation of the book “… from the sea – Black of Odessa –”. After a brief presentation in which the author, Marco Cardetta, will converse with journalist Rosarianna Romano, there will be a performance-concert titled ODESSA RHAPSODY, a reading by and with Marco Cardetta. Sound improvisations by composer and multi-instrumentalist Roberto Salahaddin Re David. The event is promoted by the Association “Laboratorio d’idee Il faro,” with the sponsorship and support of the Municipality of Gioia del Colle.

The book has already been presented on RaiCultura and has received significant critical attention at the national level.
Presentation link of the book on RaiCultura:
https://www.raicultura.it/.../Marco-Cardetta-dal-mare...
Press review:
https://www.marcocardetta.com/p/press.html

THE BOOK
The book is a visionary, psychedelic, and spiritual poem inspired by the myth of Odessa as a city of everyone and no one, where each person is a stranger but also a citizen. It contains various narrative, spiritual, comic, grotesque, pornographic, and symbolic poems. Different characters, Kol'ka, Ljubka, Uncle Pesja, Mu-Mu, and many others narrate their stories or those of others, in a true novel in verse that speaks to the heart of the images we carry within, the collective unconscious of a transforming West, in contact with the Other, with a language intentionally woven with archaisms, dialectisms, Russianisms, Ukrainianisms, Yiddish, and Ancient Greek, in a polyphony that reflects the very nature of Odessa.

Bibliographic data
Title: … from the sea – Black of Odessa –
Author: Marco Cardetta
Publisher: Les Flâneurs Edizioni
Genre: Poetry
Release date: April 3, 2026
Pages: 94
Price: €12.00
Links:
www.lesflaneursedizioni.it
https://www.lesflaneursedizioni.it/.../dal-mare-nero-di.../
https://www.marcocardetta.com/p/books.html
Web: www.marcocardetta.com