The Bloody Thorn
Publisher: CreateSpace (Amazon.com)
Published: 2014
Place of publication: USA
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 157
Table of contents: title: This fourth collection of poems by Diego Bastianutti is all pure poetry, truly spellbinding, intense and concise. The conscious thought conveyed is enriched with multiple echoes and meanings, which is the real nature of poetry.; title: The poems of social criticism are meant as a bur wedged by the poet into the apathy of our society, in which the word has been emptied of its true meaning, has been corrupted. Words like “democracy and freedom” which are “dead words draped on gun barrels” in a world where “drunken gods are playing chess on our backs”.; title: 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.; title: 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, and always open towards new horizons as well.