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Michele Sovente’s first collection of poems, published in 1978 with Vallecchi, is L’uomo al naturale. The collection shows, in the epigraph, an aphorism taken from “La società dello spettacolo”, an essay in the form of aphorisms by the French philosopher Guy Debord: “The life of the societies in which the modern conditions of production reign, announces itself as an immense accumulation of representations. All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.”

In this collection, Sovente shows interest in the social and political issues of his time. His poems are often a criticism to the consumer society, victim of the media. Standard Italian is the only language used here, with many terms referring to the political sphere. In the lyric poems, subjectivity is completely missing, the poet’s eye is employed to observe the outside and to underline its anxieties and contradictions. The work is divided into three sections: La ragione venduta, Questo è il punto and L’uomo al naturale.

In poems like La nuova era and La tuta, we find the characteristics of the whole work, that is to say his interest in contemporary issues and his critic to modern society.