Antonio Sanges’s poetic debut dates back to 2015 with Penne d’oca (Lithos), a work that Francesco Muzzioli described as avant-garde, in which Sanges recovers an archaic lexicon without adhering to classical metre, thus creating an original dialogue between tradition and innovation. In 2019 he published Poesie in itinere (Controluna), a collection that deepens the conflict between poet and reality through an elevated language reflecting a profound dialectical tension.

His most recent collection, Distensione del destino (Ensemble, 2025), marks a significant evolution: linguistic simplification corresponds to a pursuit of expressive clarity, whereby complex philosophical concepts are translated into sharp and evocative poetic images.

In the field of literary criticism, with Les jeux sont faits: The Culture of the Surface. Beckett and the Theatre of Crisis (Carla Rossi Academy Press, 2023), Sanges offers an original interpretation of Samuel Beckett’s theatre. Rejecting traditional philosophical readings, he proposes a “literal” approach to the texts, suggesting that allegorical interpretations are often shaped by epistemological preconceptions. From this perspective emerges his original theory of the surface, which focuses attention on the textual plane and argues that the great themes of Western culture—destiny, love, death—are now “lost” and reconstructed only at the level of the surface.