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Coffee Stains On My Books
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Series: Stefania Lucchetti - Contemporary Italian Poetry: Bilingual Editions, Book 1
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ISBN13: 9798883109712
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 23 2024
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 23 2024
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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FEATURED in Reedsy Discovery List of the Best Books - November 2025
Excerpt from the editorial reviews: A fiercely talented, bilingual poet, Lucchetti is a musical genius of great depth and complexity... This is a book of searching, vulnerable, and emotionally penetrating verses.
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A POETIC JOURNEY OF IDENTITY, RESILIENCE AND TRANSFORMATION THROUGH THE IMPERFECTIONS OF LIFE With a voice at once intimate and intellectual, classical and contemporary, Stefania Lucchetti gathers the substances of lived experience and life's imperfections - love and fracture, desire and memory, grief and metamorphosis - and submits them to the clarifying voice of poetry with classical echoes of mythology.
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COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS
Cover art: original drawing by Italian illustrator Gianluca Biscalchin
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Coffee Stains on My Books is an award-winning bilingual poetry collection (English and Italian), accompanied by original colour illustrations, and conceived as a luminous encounter between language, art, and thought.
With a voice at once intimate and intellectual, Stefania Lucchetti gathers the substances of lived experience and life's imperfections - love and fracture, desire and memory, grief and metamorphosis - and submits them to the clarifying voice of poetry.
Classical echoes - myth, literature, and philosophy - move through the collection not as ornament, but as a deep structure of meaning. The author offers poems dedicated to mythology figures such as Penelope, Athena, Ulysses, Medusa, Hekate, Poseidon, Artemis and others to tell personal stories which are universal. The ancient world returns here as metaphor and mirror: a vocabulary and a framework for the complexities of life, for what remains unsolved in the heart, for the enduring significance of each passage of life.
The book is enriched by the original illustrations of Italian artist Gianluca Biscalchin, whose visual language extends the poems' symbolic atmosphere, heightening their lyric tension and their sense of mystery.
Coffee Stains on My Books belongs to that rare tradition of poetry in which emotional precision and contemplative depth are inseparable from lyrical verse: a work that invites the reader into attentiveness, into interpretive pleasure.
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Stefania Lucchetti is an Italian award-winning poet and essayist. Bilingual in Italian and English, she writes poetry of lyrical refinement and contemporary relevance.
A POETIC JOURNEY OF IDENTITY, RESILIENCE AND TRANSFORMATION THROUGH THE IMPERFECTIONS OF LIFE With a voice at once intimate and intellectual, classical and contemporary, Stefania Lucchetti gathers the substances of lived experience and life's imperfections - love and fracture, desire and memory, grief and metamorphosis - and submits them to the clarifying voice of poetry with classical echoes of mythology.
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COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS
Cover art: original drawing by Italian illustrator Gianluca Biscalchin
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Coffee Stains on My Books is an award-winning bilingual poetry collection (English and Italian), accompanied by original colour illustrations, and conceived as a luminous encounter between language, art, and thought.
With a voice at once intimate and intellectual, Stefania Lucchetti gathers the substances of lived experience and life's imperfections - love and fracture, desire and memory, grief and metamorphosis - and submits them to the clarifying voice of poetry.
Classical echoes - myth, literature, and philosophy - move through the collection not as ornament, but as a deep structure of meaning. The author offers poems dedicated to mythology figures such as Penelope, Athena, Ulysses, Medusa, Hekate, Poseidon, Artemis and others to tell personal stories which are universal. The ancient world returns here as metaphor and mirror: a vocabulary and a framework for the complexities of life, for what remains unsolved in the heart, for the enduring significance of each passage of life.
The book is enriched by the original illustrations of Italian artist Gianluca Biscalchin, whose visual language extends the poems' symbolic atmosphere, heightening their lyric tension and their sense of mystery.
Coffee Stains on My Books belongs to that rare tradition of poetry in which emotional precision and contemplative depth are inseparable from lyrical verse: a work that invites the reader into attentiveness, into interpretive pleasure.
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Stefania Lucchetti is an Italian award-winning poet and essayist. Bilingual in Italian and English, she writes poetry of lyrical refinement and contemporary relevance.
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