The Guests at the Gate

by Anthony Piccione

Overview

Anthony Piccione’s poetry is deep imagery at its best and most richly developed. Readers of Robert Bly and James Wright will find and appreciate in Piccione that recognizable voice of everyperson asking the most essential questions, making the most pertinent observations of the human heart in the here and now. Lovers of Chinese poetry will appreciate a modern descendent who, like Li Po, can share a cup of wine with the moon.

Anthony Piccione teaches writing workshops and is proprietor of Upright Hall, a new writers’ retreat in Prattsburgh, New York. His poems, interviews, essays, and reviews have appeared in dozens of journals, and his poems have been included in many anthologies.

Also available by Anthony Piccione
For the Kingdom
• CUSA
Seeing It Was So
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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781929918263
Publisher:	BOA Editions, Ltd.
Publication date:	07/01/2002
Series:	American Poets Continuum , #74
Edition description:	1ST
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

	Introduction: "Tony Piccione and the Woodstove"	9
	Dear Friend
	Note Bits--July 3, 1999	15
	Because I Listened	16
	Trading Places in a Poem	17
	Town Meeting	18
	Early Morning Farewell to Bernie Schuster	19
	Down in Prattsburgh, New York	20
	Talking Late at Night	21
	Dear Friend	22
	Gathering the News
	Stepping Across	25
	Stephen Hawking and Fellini	26
	For the One to Come	28
	His Face	29
	Local Writer	30
	Bow Season	31
	Watching the Evening News	32
	Entering Genesee Gorge	33
	Sitting in the Mall While My Wife Does All the Work	34
	What Calls Out for Us
	Neighbors and Exiles	39
	Reading All Night at the Table	40
	With My Wife in Late November	41
	At Breakfast	42
	Something Feeding on Night	43
	Startled at the Touch of Otherness	44
	Just As Something Calls	45
	Sense of Something About to Happen	46
	In Cool Twilight
	Winter 1992. March	49
	I Rise Early, and Stumble On	50
	Rising Past Dawn	51
	Out into Twilight, Early December	52
	Night Train Through Inner Mongolia	53
	Going Outside As Though I Suddenly Thought of Something	54
	Lying Down Under a Tree at Dusk	55
	In Cool Twilight	56
	Looking Up Quickly
	It's Morning	59
	Standing Still in the Pole Barn	60
	Lounging Awhile and Keeping Still	61
	Watching Two People	62
	At My Mother's Grave	63
	When Love Moves Us	64
	Climbing Down from Our Century	65
	In the Body Made of Woman	66
	Looking Up Quickly	67
	Acknowledgments	68
	About the Author	69
	Colophon	72