Siciliana
Emanuel di Pasquale's poems should be read by every American . . . He excels at the short lyric, writes directly, and feels deeply . . . The reader is enriched by both his Sicilian and his American realizations in his life-enhancing lines. - Richard Eberhart

[di Pasquale] writes out of strong experience, and by insisting on accuracy, he comes out both simple and surprising. He's never decorative: there is always something human happening, and his words are close to it. - Richard Wilbur

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Siciliana
Emanuel di Pasquale's poems should be read by every American . . . He excels at the short lyric, writes directly, and feels deeply . . . The reader is enriched by both his Sicilian and his American realizations in his life-enhancing lines. - Richard Eberhart

[di Pasquale] writes out of strong experience, and by insisting on accuracy, he comes out both simple and surprising. He's never decorative: there is always something human happening, and his words are close to it. - Richard Wilbur

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Siciliana

Siciliana

by Emanuel di Pasquale
Siciliana

Siciliana

by Emanuel di Pasquale

Overview

Emanuel di Pasquale's poems should be read by every American . . . He excels at the short lyric, writes directly, and feels deeply . . . The reader is enriched by both his Sicilian and his American realizations in his life-enhancing lines. - Richard Eberhart

[di Pasquale] writes out of strong experience, and by insisting on accuracy, he comes out both simple and surprising. He's never decorative: there is always something human happening, and his words are close to it. - Richard Wilbur

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781599540108
Publisher: Bordighera Press
Publication date: 10/01/2009
Pages: 48
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.10(d)

About the Author


Emanuel di Pasquale has lived in New Jersey since 1968 and teaches at Middlesex County College. His books of poems include Genesis (BOA Editions Limited, 1989) and The Silver Lake Love Poems (Bordighera, 2000). He was awarded The Bordighera Poetry Prize in 1998, The Academy of American Poets' Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship in 2000, and the Chelsea Award for Poetry in 2002. He is currently the poetry editor of the literary journal Chelsea and lives in Long Branch, along the ocean, with his younger daughter, Elisabeth Raffaela.
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