1. Diego Bastianutti’s fourth collection
of poems is truly spellbinding, intense
and concise. The conscious thought
conveyed is enriched with multiple
echoes and meanings, which is the
real nature of poetry.
The poems of social criticism are
meant as a bur the poet thrusts into the apathy of our
society, whose words have been corrupted and emptied
of their true meaning. To the evil perceived in the first
part, the poet opposes Psyche, the feminine soul, which
merges with Eros in a fusion made of grief and catharsis.
Bastianutti’s almost obsessive search for the feminine
essence is the main theme of the second part. In the
extraordinarily intense and sensitive poems dedicated
to woman, the feminine mystery becomes one with the
mystery of our very existence.
The final section contains poems by a border-dweller,
an Antivasin as Bastianutti defines himself, a man who
lives in sight of two worlds, and is enriched by the
perspectives and the culture of both, yet always open
towards new horizons, as well.
The Bloody Thorn
Diego Bastianutti
2014