Professor Leonardo Lastilla, who teaches Vine to Table: Italian Wines in Context at Syracuse Florence, has published a new book of poetry with Nonsolopoesie Edizioni. According to the blurb, Il Dolore della Cognizione (“The Pain of Cognition”):
unveils a feeling that has belonged to each of us at least once in our lives. The poetic narrative draws a line, a basic concept. Where there is love, there is pain. Where there is life, there is pain. We are not exempt from experiencing it personally. It seems to be a toll we have to pay, a duty, to become and be within life. The verses seem to be written in the immediacy of feeling, of experiencing suffering. They are also measured and forged by irony, resentment, knowing how to laugh at oneself, and holding on to one’s ego. Such instinctive feelings contain themselves by giving meaning to existence. The verses have a studied rhythmic quality and include catchphrases that make this poetic sylloge an experiential journey of lived life and what surrounds it.