As a retired primary school teacher, the author retains her "didactic" style and her own approach to education. Her poems, therefore, more than being intimate and emotional expressions, often feel like an exhortation to act. They are open discourses, directly addressing the reader. Her style is simple and straight-forward, with neither self-conscious nor elaborate devices.
Bliss (New Age Internet Magazine)

Carla's poems talk with a soft, sweet voice. At the same time (and without any hesitation), they urge a new investigation of those spiritual values that seem to have been lost in our frantic world: a world in which people also seem to have forgotten the meaning of words like hope, altruism, generosity, compassion, love for humankind, and for nature.
La Nación (Buenos Aires)

We wish for Carla all the popularity she deserves, and invite our readers to think about the message conveyed by her verses: faith, sensibility, love, and generosity are alive and well, if people can make a soulful connection with the good parts of themselves.
Elle Mexico 

Life is what Piccinini sings in her verses: life spent expressing one's own freedom, while respecting the freedom of others. The same life which is achieved when everyone loves, gives, accepts, and learns.
Elle Chile

The notion of giving which is sung by the author is not happiness or enthusiasm about giving part of ourselves (and our possessions) to others. Rather, we should give what we can, and accept with a smile what others offer us in exchange.
Elle Colombia

Her smile shines, as the one of a "granny writer", with tenderness aura all around: a sweet inspiration for her readers.
La Razón (Caracas)

The Readers

Welcome to a new way of writing poetry! Welcome to a new manner of conceiving of spirit and faith.
Roseena v.Z. - Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

Everybody should learn to describe hope as you describe it in your verses.
Mark M. - Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Light in the fog...this is the message arising from your verses.
Lisa D. - Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Love and respect are what I feel for you, now and forever.
A reader from Boise City, Idaho, USA

Talking about love, peace, freedom, and fraternity is not easy today (...) you can say it in every language, because a universal language is the one you talk: the language of the heart!
Gabriela -Bucharest, Rumania

I can only admire the courage you show, when you raise up your voice to talk to each person's soul.
Mike F. - Canberra, Australia

My thanks, Carla, for reminding me that life is precious, and my gratitude for giving me a reason to believe and to affirm it, even if I can't say it in poetry as well as you do.
Lynn - Chicago, Illinois, USA

Everybody should read your verses to learn what dignity and human respect are.
Yannick - Krakow, Poland

It's nice to talk about faith and life values as you do in your verses: in a simple, sincere, and natural way ... almost like a child.
Ines - Crotone, Italy

Let me give you my thanks for helping me feel part of this world!
Patrick B. - Dover, Delaware

I open my arms to embrace all people in this world: first of all you, Carla, my beloved child and adored sister.
Try to keep you faith intact, and to the best of your ability let the torch of goodness eternally shine in your heart!
Mahaila - Halifax, Canada

Few are the people who understand as well as you do, that God is Freedom, if only we can accept Him as the best friend in our lives.
Almudena - Mexico City, Mexico

Something tells me that your verses and the message they contain will be a great help for me in the future.
Bill P. - Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

After reading your poems I think I've discovered how to talk serenely with my loved ones about my departure, about my one-way trip(...)
Adriana - A reader who has cancer

You know how to let your feelings shine. You are able to give value even to an empty life.
Mariella - Turin, Italy

You can help us all rediscover Hope in our hearts!
Sam - La Valletta, Malta

You talk with the voice of innocence, Carla. Every word of your verses comes out of your mouth like the wonder of a child who is discovering the beauty of Nature all around them.
Stephen - Winnipeg, Canada

Mrs. Piccinini, I can't believe the pretentious, doctrinaire manner with which you approach your readers, with a heap of religious, stereotyped truths, already quite obsolete: not only on behalf of myself, a committed atheist, but also for the most fervent believers. In fact, I am sure they will never find any spiritual benefit in your verses.
A maths teacher

Mrs. Piccinini, I don't want to open even one of your volumes of those things you call "poems". And I am amazed to see that a teacher like you could willingly abandon yourself to lies such as these - the ruin of our world and of the most natural feelings.
My daughter will NEVER read your Sursum Corda, which she secretly bought. I confiscated this book, and very soon this incident will be forgotten. If my daughter dares to betray my trust, she will pay dearly for it!
An anonymous mother from the Province of Riete, Italy.

I'm amazed to that someone like you, a teacher (and certainly a cultured woman), would want to make of God a New Age phenomenon. You even mention Him by His own name, pretending to exalt Him. Regardless of whether you are a believer or not, and whether you used Our Lord's name in vain or not, in your pursuit of venality and maybe simple publicity, I hope that you, through your faith and fraternity messages don't want to trick your readers, most of all the youngest ones - and entice them to imagine and believe in the spiritual values you pretend to teach as a teacher, almost as if you were an apostolic messenger!
I don't know whether Christ would approve of your behaviour, and I wish that His Holiness the Pope could have the "pleasure" of one day reading Sursum Corda. I am sure He would say that I am right!
A catholic priest from the region of Apulla, Southern Italy

I had the opportunity to read your poems ... and to think about them. I don't know what to do: shall I burst into laughter, or feel disgust? Your verses hide such "sweet" sounds behind a mask of fraternal spirit. And this is what really gets on my nerves. Ladies and gentlemen, a new Barbara Cartland is born, and she's here to let women cry through the illusion of a sweet sense of solidarity. Ha, Ha, Ha!
Gabrielle, Duthon, Alabama, USA

Please keep on saying your futile words. But remember this: among the many people writing to you to voice their approval, I shall be one of the few (maybe the only one) to tell you to your face how things really are. And among the many people who feel deluded and tricked after reading your answers, and who curse you, I shall be the only one who never swears at you. That's right, because I just don't care!
Agueda, Mexico City, Mexico

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