Gianclaudio de Angelini began to publish his poems on Facebook as “posts”, in Italian and in Istriot (the Istriot-Venetian dialect spoken mainly in Rovinj and Dignano) and his haiku. And every time I read them, I admired them. And this, over the years, verse after verse, made me increasingly aware of their poetic value. So, one fine day not long ago, I decided to ask him to collect his poems in Italian and in Istriot and his lightning-fast haiku to explore the possibility of an anthology that would anthologically bring together the three threads through which he expresses himself. And here is the book. I think that as I was struck by it, so...