It's called Bread and Sugar (Giuliano Ladolfi publisher, 2016), the latest collection of poems by Menotti Lerro, young and early thirties with a rich path of literary awards such as to attract the attention of one of the most famous critics lettarari of Italian culture, such as Giorgio Barberi Squarotti. Born in Omignano, in the province of Salerno, this author has been distinguished by the impressive number of data jobs to the press and for the high quality of the same, rightly considered one of the most compelling emerging poets of the contemporary world.

He currently teaches English Culture and Civilization of a university of Milan, as well as in colleges.

He graduated with a thesis on the poetry of TS Eliot and Eugenio Montale, at the University of Salerno in 2004. He earned a Master of Arts in England and a PhD on contemporary poetry in English and Spanish. He was Visiting Scholar at the University of Reading (where he taught in postgraduate courses) and Warwick, after he had previously studied at Oxford. She is a freelance journalist and has worked in the Italian and foreign editors of the Mondadori publishing house.

In 2015 he was one of the winners of the prestigious award "Cetonaverde Poetry", but in the past he had already received several prestigious literary awards. His first poem was written at sixteen and her first collection of poems, Ceppi Incerti, was published in Florence in 2003 on behalf of the prestigious literary Coffee "Redcoats". Since then the Salerno author has not stopped giving body to a work impressive: about 30 books of poetry, novels, theater, aphorisms and essays that make him one of the most prolific poets of all time.

They have written forewords to his books: Alessandro Serpieri, Giorgio Barberi Squarotti, Roberto Carifi, Giuliano Ladolfi, Joseph Wolf, Carla Perugini, Giuseppe Gentile, Mary Brunner, Sandro Gros-Pietro, Francesco D'Episcopo, Erminia Passannanti, Vincenzo Guarracino, Walter Mauro Luigi Cannillo, Gabriela Fantato,

In 2011 Andrew Mangham University of Reading has dedicated the volume The Poetry of Menotti Lerro (Cambridge Scholars Publishing). His literary works have also been translated into Romanian, in a coordianato project Lidia Vianu University of Bucharest, in Spanish and German.

In 2015 he released the CD's lyrical songs Beats Night presented in three major concerts in the city of Gdansk (Theatre of the Old Town Hall), Krakow (Villa Decius) and Warsaw (Royal Castle).

Now expects the staging of his first play Donna Giovanna (women's and gay version of the famous Don Giovanni) already received by critics with much enthusiasm and promises to remain in myth like the character created by Tirso de Molina.

"Bread and sugar ... do not you think, dear reader, to hear already in the mouth the taste? It never seems to fall into a different world, free internet, iphone and snacks?

For me, yes. In this collection of Menotti Lerro, dedicated to childhood, I read myself, my world, my expectations, the figures of my parents, the gestures, the words heard and locked in the memory to be relived in the following years. For this reason it seems reductive to consider these verses solely and generically as evocation of childhood "; These considerations Giuliano Landolfi last collection of poems from which we extrapolate some verses:

“Hai detto: Invecchiando non si ritorna

bambini. Solo s’impara a confessare

al mondo di non essere mai cresciuti”

Daniela La Padula