THE LIFE OF A (SHOWGIRL) POET
Photo: Stefania Lucchetti in some of her book signings and readings 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. Dear readers, A few days ago, a friend remarked on how glamorous the various book presentations, signings, and literary […]
“Milano ” and “Rome in November” – two contemporary poems
Rome in NovemberMassimiliano Giannocco translated by Stefania Lucchetti from the poetry collection Quando il mare è mosso How beautiful is Rome in November,its limbs suspended between the morning hazeand the dim autumn sun,the sky’s shifting expressions impressedin patches of tears still half-asleep,upon the veined benches of the gardens.The foliage is a carpet of apparent death,God […]
Athena – contemporary poem by Stefania Lucchetti
Photo: Pallas Athena, G. Klimt,1898, Wien Museum (Vienna) Read this newsletter in Italian/Leggi questa newsletter in italiano Pallas Athena by Gustav Klimt is one of my favourite paintings, so much so that I have a print of it at home. Visiting it in Vienna (it is hosted at the Wien Museum, not at the more […]
Milano – poem by Stefania Lucchetti
Photo: Milano, Arco della pace, © Giuseppe Faraone – Oil on canvas of contemporary painter Giuseppe Faraone “You welcome me with an icy expression and turned shoulders, as if you did not care, and often you let me drown in my insignificance. But in staying with you and living you so many layers of you opened […]