Sphera

• Crossing between the universal and the particular, between animal and divine, reading the distances brings poem and reader together. And starting from what is near, Lucchesi builds, through his subjective mathematics, a poetics of detachment. Within this poetics lies the postponement of days and their 'hunger for distance.'

• Savoring each word Lucchesi writes, the reader will notice the cosmic presence spanning the entire work. A sphere is a solid formed by rotating a semicircle around its diameter, which reflects the endless quality of Marco Lucchesi's poems. It is like tracing the same circle, yet learning to see everything anew on every turn.

• More refined and therefore clearer than ever, this world reappears—and shines—in the book Sphera. What we encounter here is the fascinating strangeness of an imaginal world that strikes us, first of all, by the rarity—and rare beauty—of the intriguing elements that compose it, distinctly setting it apart from the cluttered sphere of our everyday life and speech.

• Lucchesi thus weaves, using minimalist threads from Western poetic tradition, a net through which the fleeting and the inconstant pass, in search of possible constellations of meaning. Like a spider ready to mend a frayed web, the poet stands as an expectant awareness at the heart of the book, measuring and weighing the repeated tremors of the pattern, while contemplating the void that supports its light geometry.

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