---------------------- 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 ". ---------------------- A POETIC JOURNEY OF IDENTITY, RESILIENCE AND TRANSFORMATION THROUGH THE IMPERFECTIONS OF LIFE With a voice at once i ntimate 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 . ---------------------- COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS Cover art : original drawing by Italian illustrator Gianluca Biscalchin ---------------------- 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. ---------------------- Stefania Lucchetti is an Italian award-winning poet and essayist. Bilingual in Italian and English, she writes poetry of lyrical refinement and contemporary relevance. Translation of excerpt from ANSA Italy 's Cultural page of 28 April 2025: " Coffee Stains On My Books, the emotional cartography of existence in poetry. Stefania Lucchetti's poetry collection transforms scars and desires into a song as delicate as it is powerful: a hymn of survival and rebirth ". "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) Review on Reedsy Discovery by Stephen Dudas - Writer/scholar with an MA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Literature from Miami University " 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 " Coffee Stains on My Books was on the Reedsy Discovery Featured List, Friday 14 November 2025 Tia W - Reviewer - Published on 24 October 2025 on Netgalley Introspective, powerful and thought-provoking. "Coffee Stains On My Books" is a beautifully written collection of poems focusing on the complexity and fluidity of human emotions. These poems cover a broad range of themes including relationships, heartbreak, motherhood, artistic expression, grief, and re-discovering oneself. My favourite poems from this collection were the ones that focused on the realities of relationships with others and oneself; the hard work needed to maintain a loving bond, and the brutal realisation that sometimes life doesn't work out the way you had planned. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ " A vibrant and thoughtful poetry collection exploring love, life, language, art, and hope with creativity and emotional depth." — C. Reading Nook, NetGalley Reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ " A beautifully reflective collection filled with emotional insight. These poems invite readers to pause, reflect, and rediscover meaning in everyday moments." — NetGalley Reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐ " Life rarely arrives in neat lines, and neither does this collection. Lucchetti captures the way thoughts and emotions unfold—fragmented, intimate, and deeply human." — F. D'Angelo, NetGalley Reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐ " A beautifully bilingual poetry collection , with English and Italian poems side by side, creating a rich and immersive reading experience." — J. Horner Lewis, NetGalley Reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐ " An intriguing bilingual collection where poems move between languages and images with grace and originality."
