Paola Igliori (born in

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), is a poet, writer, photographer, essayist and publisher. She became a resident of

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from the 1980s, when she first moved there, until 2003 when she returned to her home country. Paola Igliori has a son Filippo, who is a photographer and film maker.

Biography

Igliori's parents habitually invited poets, writers, and other artists at the family estate of Villa Lina, near

, where young Paola and her four brothers and sisters, Benedetta, Gaia, Ulisse and Alessandro, spent their summers and "grew up in between the intellectual, scholarly and creative milieu that surrounded erand the root elders". In the mid 1980s Paola relocated to New York with her then-husband, artist

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on the Toscana Institute website While in New York, she wrote her first book, ''Entrails, Heads, and Tails'', which contained photographic essays and conversations with artists such as

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, and others, published b
Rizzoli
in 1991. The book was described by some critics "an exploration of creativity through the everyday life".
in jackmagazine.com Igliori's conversations with artists, and her photo essays, have appeared in magazines in many countries, such as ''

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'', and '' Wolkenkratzer''. In 1990, she started the publishing label of Inanout Press, based in New York City, essentially a "one-woman band from thought to distribution." putting out publications such as ''Chocolate Creams & Dollars'' (1992),

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' collaboration with Moroccan storyteller

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; ''Stickman'' (1994); and others. In 1996, she edited and published ''American Magus: A Modern Alchemist'', a book about then largely unknown (though well known among artists, since the 1950s) American artist, painter, poet, film maker, essayist and collector

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. Igliori had developed a strong personal relationship with Smith, who, by some accounts, died in 1992 in her arms "singing as he drifted away", at the

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. In 2001, she wrote and directed a documentary about Smith, titled ''American Magus''.
American Magus
' on IMDB.com In 2003, Iglori relocated back to Villa Lina, in Italy, which, for a few years, she operated as a residential estate, also organising social events.

Bibliography

* Igliori, Paola. ''Entrails, Heads & Tails; photographic essays and conversations on the everyday'', Rizzoli, New York, 1992, ASIN B002J7QO3O * ''American Magus Harry Smith: A Modern Alchemist'', about

edited by Paola Igliori. New York, New York: Inanout Press, 1996, 286 pages, * Trudell, John. ''Stickman: Poems, Lyrics, Talks'', edited by Paola Igliori. New York, New York: Inanout Press, 1999, 168 pages,

Filmography

*
American Magus
' (2002)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Iglori, Paola Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Italian women writers Italian emigrants to the United States

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