Afternoons of Suspended Love Poetry Collection

IF YOU HAVE BEEN MARRIED FOR A LONG TIME, THIS POETRY COLLECTION IS FOR YOU

"Stefania Lucchetti's poetry books make me think: -We all feel that way, how odd nobody says it - and on top of that her books impart music and beauty to the world" - Martin Latham, author of The Bookseller's Tale (Penguin)

(Cover Art: Adam and Eve, Gustav Klimt, 1917 - Belvedere Museum, Vienna)

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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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 poetry Italian and English side by side 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 a long term marriage.