Stefano Loddo

Stefano Loddo was born in Rome on 27 August 1966.

He has been passionate about poetry since early childhood and approached writing during his adolescence. In that period his favorite authors were Baudelaire, Verlaine, Herman Hesse. As he grew up he approached authors such as Montale and Ungaretti. He starts reading Joyce, first Dedalus, and then he is struck by his Ulysses. He begins a journey of measured research into the word, trying to uncover the essentiality of things. The verse as a bare image of reality. The first publication, a notebook of poems, dates back to 1998: the self-financed volume entitled "The Seasons of Silence" in Italian. During a period of intense reading, and profound personal events, with the war in Iraq and the former Yugoslavia as a backdrop, the collection "Loves and other days: beyond time" was born, published as the first self-publishing edition. Republished in 2013 with Amazon Kdp, first in Italian and then in English. In 2022 he published "Beyond the clouds, beyond a new time" again with Amazon Kdp.

"Stefano Loddo's eyes “seek and investigate between furrows of wisdom and wrinkles of naivety”. A poet moved by the desire to “leave a trace of himself in time, a mirror of his humanity”, who does not deny that fragile aspect of his own humanity , the one who gives in to the weight of "having to be at all costs the lighthouse that illuminates the route" or an expert and confident helmsman, squeezed "a little more every day" in the "great circle of life"; that life that "is drinks drop by drop", that same life which "to live it, shapes us, shapes us" and which "surprises"... and "us, the dust of the world", to "rummage inside our soul". As "the word goes around in circles and chases himself without respite", he "chases himself with a thousand doubts and uncertainties and the struggle of never finding himself" and "man is a flower stripped of every petal, one after the other, until he contemplates his miserable essence, bare stem under the eyes of the world". Stefano Loddo is undoubtedly a poet rich in humanity, not only "folded in on himself", in his own investigation within himself, but open and deeply involved in pain and facts of the world, he turns his gaze on everything that surrounds him, offering intense images to the reader. Even in the images that he gives us of his personal history, it is in pain that, in my opinion, his poetic energy finds best expression in a most engaging way. "

Alessandra Nateri Sangiovanni