Giancarlo Stoccoro's poetry feeds on the unexpressed feelings and emotions stratified in the time of life: "There is in nostalgia/a cipher subtracted from the laws of the sky/the scent of a flower/that does not lose its gaze/to the competition of the living/this is the only thing the poet writes about"; poetic writing makes it possible to "Lay bare the darkness/to find the form/that every shadow brings with it", without forgetting that "What really unites/is always an invisible thread", and "Distances/not presences/embrace horizons" (from Giovanna Rosadini's preface).