“Poetry is sensuality” by Italian contemporary poet Stefania Lucchetti
Photo: Stefania Lucchetti Read this essay in Italian/Leggi questo articolo in italiano Sign up through the form to read my blog on the substack app or receive it by email. Why are we so afraid of sensuality? Why do we seek it, yet at the same time, shy away from it? Perhaps because, somewhere along […]
Love poetry by Stefania Lucchetti
“That Love is all there is/Is all we know of Love” (Emily Dickinson) Photo: The author with her husband Marcello (Vienna, 2024) Afternoons of Suspended Love is a book which tells a tale of love and passion in a long term marriage. It is a bilingual (Italian and English side by side text) […]
The value of beauty and Aphrodite – by contemporary Italian poet Stefania Lucchetti
Photo: Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1485 circa (Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze) Read in Italian/Leggi in italiano ““I am the vessel of wonders and love Queen of Cups, ruling from above my hands sculpt dreams from desire’s clay igniting love’s fire in every heart’s way.” Excerpt from the poem “Aphrodite” included in the contemporary poetry collection Coffee Stains on My […]