Quicksand is insidious, sticky, deadly, nevertheless, well disguised behind a harmless and pleasant landscape appearance: exactly like our society, looking rich in moral principles and messenger of justice, freedom and democracy, in cruel and merciless reality with whom has the adversity or the inexperience to complete a simple false step. That is why the title of the collection. "Quicksand," in fact, is a poetries collection on our time. Annarita Coriasco's poetry is characterized by belonging to the "objective" kind, with the verification of the reality of things and social problems. Who looks for escapist literature, he won't find it in this collection. This has been the first poetries collection of the author. It collects some of the poetries written during the '70 and '80 years, and it is published here for the first time.

Men create the story, and they are a victim of it. They are the single characters to do the difference. Each character of these has made the story; he has had a reason to complete the gesture that has done. However, what is the reason? Why? The protagonist is looking for the answers, and she will find the answers trying the existence of God. The comedy is based by the collection of short stories "The Doge and other stories," about the human stories of characters that have done the myth and the history somehow; at times, they are unknown. From the anonymous companion of Pietro Micca to the gesture of Muzio Scevola, from one of so many Venetian doges to Publio Cornelius Scipio, actually to the human story of the only one defeated of the challenge of Barletta, many myths of the history disclose their secret. The work has got the 1 prize for the theatre at the Gran Premio Internazionale D'Arte "Carrara-Hallstahammar" 1999.

Duilio Chiarle is the italian author of this japanese poetry book (Haiku is a form of japanese poetry).