Death by Renaissance: Poems

by Paola Corso, George Thomas Mendel (Photographer)

Overview

Strong poems with photos of an American industrial area around Pittsburgh, with stories of family, Italian—American family life, the struggle to go on.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780933087866
Publisher:	Bottom Dog Press
Publication date:	01/05/2004
Series:	Working Lives Series
Pages:	104
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Paola Corso was born in a Pittsburgh river town, Tarentum, where her Italian immigrant father and grandfather worked in the steel mill. She earned a B.A. from Boston College and a master s degree from the City College of New York—CUNY where she won the Dejur Award for Creative Writing. She is a 2003 New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellow and author of the Pudding House chapbook A Proper Burial. Her poems have appeared in Italian Americana, The Progressive, The Pittsburgh Post—Gazette, Western Pennsylvania History, Women s Studies Quarterly, New Delta Review, and elsewhere. She currently teaches a creative writing workshop at Fordham University and lives in Brooklyn with playwright Michael Winks and son Giona.


George Thomas Mendel, a Pittsburgh photojournalist and fine art photographer for more than 20 years, has published in numerous books and magazines and has produced a variety of portfolios, including architecture and humanitarian projects.

Reading Group Guide

Photograph by George Thomas Mendel

Preface

Death by Renaissance by Paola Corso

Editorial Reviews

Few books address the anxiety of moving between classes and the assimilation of second—generation immigrants with such urgency and poetic capability as Paola Corso's first collection of poems." —The Indiana Review



"Poems drawn out like monologues from an Italian John Wideman, Corso's work captures the voice and rhythms of her remembered world."—Pittsburgh Magazine



"Geoge Mendel's richly evocative photos are little touches of worn worlds that complement Corso's work." Pittsburgh Post Gazette

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