"In her Serie fossile (Fossil Series), acclaimed Italian writer Maria Grazia Calandrone transforms the metaphorical spectrum connected to the idea of "fossil" by turning it -and the process necessary to create it- into the very essence of love. Love is at the core of the entire collection, as the author herself suggests on the back cover: "Serie fossile is a poem about love, from the miracle of its birth to the agony of its end." Love, then, is surrender, entailing the complete opening up to the other (ready to be inhabited) and irremediable transformation, a rebirth from which there is no going back." - Beppe Cavatorta