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Di Piero's poems are uncomfortably realistic. Many of them give the impression of some chunk of life that has been mercilessly broken off and refigured on the page. The pain it takes to do this-to suffer experience into form-is the filament that ignites Di Piero's temperament and which sizzles through everything that he writes. -Threepenny Review

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With language that's as simple as it is musical, Di Piero sets dazzling moments amid plainsong."--New York Times Book Review For more than three decades, W. S. Di Piero's poems have reveled in the gritty realism of cities, often drawing from his childhood in South Philadelphia. The award-winning poet, writer, and art critic returns with his twelfth volume of poetry. The Complaints is a book of fortunes, laments, and celebrations--and about pul...

Notebook entries by the award-winning San Francisco poet

Explosive language, rough sensuousness, and an unflinching eye - here is a poet who doesn't look away and is committed to poetry's first purpose: to bring song. Tombo is a book of lyrics fueled in equal parts by realism and big-fish storytelling, a book of wanderers, foghorns, summer rain, feral cats, and city jazz. Built on heartbreak particulars, these poems are raw, mysterious dilations of the moments of existence. Di Piero's work has been ...

Nitro Nights" is a "Book of Fortune" about sexual love, dying, city scruff, racial unease, and American conscience.

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A collection of essays that veers from the author's early years as the son of immigrants in Philadelphia to his working life in art, film, music, and poetry. It shows him to be insightful about himself and his work in spite of his protestations against the 'boosterism' of autobiography.

Di Piero looks at interrelations between the arts, and at the ways in which the arts express aspects of contemporary culture as well as the individual temperaments and gifts of their makers. These essays are elegant and passionate tributes to the intersection of art and self.

Shadows Burning wrestles with its angels - domestic love, fruition and dessication, the passion for words that will suffice at bringing to light and shadow ground between the inner and outer life.

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