Editorial review on Reedsy Discovery:
“Love, passion, acceptance – all of these themes permeate through this English/Italian collection with intensity, humour and honesty”
Rachel Deeming
Afternoons of Suspended Love is a deeply moving poetry collection which celebrates the transformative energy of love. Love is the invisible thread that gives life meaning and depth: an alchemical force which inspires growth, creation, and transcendence.
With a warm and sensual voice, Stefania Lucchetti explores the often-unspoken realm of love in long term relationships and marriage: a dance of skin and soul, passion and reality, nourished by time, shared commitment, and gestures imbued with significance.
Capturing the hidden moments, reflections, and emotions which shape intimacy over time, the poems included in Afternoons of Suspended Love delve into love’s endurance through life’s inevitable challenges, transforming them into growth, rediscovery and ultimately renewal and passion. An invitation to explore intimacy through the lens of experience and wisdom, celebrating the refined sensuality and enduring power of love through time, circumstances and age.
Through bilingual English-Italian verses, readers are invited into a poetic world which is lyrical yet drawing from the wisdom of lived experience, narrating a tale of love as a rich and immersive experience, sailing through the tides of both the joy and complexity of human relationships.
Discover the Essence of Love
With lyrical grace and profound insight, Afternoons of Suspended Love is more than a collection of poems, it is a celebration of life, intimacy, and the enduring magic of love. Each verse invites reflection, connection, and emotional resonance, encouraging readers to embrace passion, resilience, and the beauty of enduring relationships.
Stefania Lucchetti is an Italian award-winning poet and essayist. Bilingual in Italian and English, she writes poetry of lyrical refinement and contemporary relevance.
