Thomas Sanfilip

Conversations with Mona Lisa Thomas Sanfilip

In Conversations with Mona Lisa, Thomas Sanfilip endeavors to resurrect the prophetic soul of poetic consciousness to reclaim the lost territory separating the psyche from its mystical roots and intuitive grasp of reality. His striking imagery, fragmented dreams, and incomplete narratives form a unique, half-imagined, half-realized amalgam that moves the reader into the realm of pure symbolism laced with the poet's intimate encounters with his own inner and outer world. For Sanfilip, Da Vinci's Mona Lisa is the conduit through which he endeavors to take the first steps back to the poet's true oracular voice. As such, Conversations with Mona Lisa is not merely a collection of poetic prose and moribund insights, but a poet's courageous attempt to refind a path back to the mythic voice of the psyche and its true sibylline roots.