Coffee Stains On My Books Poetry collection

Stefania Lucchetti is an Italian award-winning poet and essayist. Bilingual in Italian and English, she writes poetry of lyrical refinement and contemporary relevance. Stefania Lucchetti is among the most widely read Italian contemporary poets worldwide.
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POEMS ABOUT FEMALE IDENTITY, TRANSFORMATION AND HEALING FROM DIFFICULT TIMES: 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 with classical echoes of mythology.

THE MANY YOU
(c) Stefania Lucchetti, Coffee Stains on My Books
"They will look at you and not recognize you,
listen to you without hearing you,
you are no longer the person they remember
and you are not the person they seek
seeing only a fragment of you,
one identity
that which is easy for them to recognize."
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BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS
(Cover art: original drawing by Italian illustrator Gianluca Biscalchin)
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FEATURED in Reedsy Discovery List of the Best New 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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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 for what exceeds us, for what remains unsolved in the heart, for what endures.
Coffee Stains on My Books belongs to that rare tradition of poetry in which emotional precision and contemplative depth are inseparable: a work that invites the reader into attentiveness and interpretive pleasure.