Product Description: In My Life Without Me, Pier Giorgio Di Cicco has created a kind of spiritual autobiography of the self abstracted from its environment. It is a lyrical and philosophic exploration of the world around us and a deep meditation on the cultural distinctions we subscribe to and which we try to preserve in the face of globalization...read more

Product Description: In Municipal Mind, Toronto's Poet Laureate offers a blueprint for building sustainable cities in a global era, predicated on city soul. By weaving bold and savvy strategies for urban creativity and civic prosperity, together with a reasoned appeal for mutual respect, understanding and interaction among citizens, he persuades us that Ð in the delicate balancing of universal values and individual needs Ð cities can do far, far better...read more

Product Description: In language that is direct as the noon-day sun Toronto’s Poet Laureate, Pier Giorgio Di Cicco returns to the wilderness terrain of his Trillium nominated The Dark Time of Angels to ask difficult questions of an acutely examined life...read more

Product Description: From the 'endlessly inventive' mind of one of Canada's greatest poets, comes Dead Men of the Fifties, a rollicking tour through a hopeful, headlong decade filled with jive talkin' jazzmen, the tallest dancer in burlesque, regular folks, movie stars, and TV dogs...read more

Product Description: In The Dark Time of Angels, Pier Giorgio Di Cicco continues the exploration of spiritual themes that he began in the critically acclaimed The Honeymoon Wilderness, which Michael Redhill in The Globe and Mail called, 'a startling and beautiful work...read more

Product Description: The Honeymoon Wilderness is Pier Giorgio Di Cicco's first full-length collection of new poetry to be published since 1986 when he withdrew from the world of literature to join a monastery. These are poems of fear and wonder from a man deeply engaged in the contemplation of the everyday...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: After fifteen years of publishing silence, Pier Giorgio Di Cicco is back. Living in Paradise contains his best poetry from the seventies and eighties along with his first new poetry since he left the literary world to join a monastery...read more

Product Description: The 1979 publication of "The Tough Romance" established Pier Giorgio di Cicco as the foremost lyric poet of his generation. The book catalysed a vibrant Italian-Canadian poesis and pioneered use of Latin-American poetics and "deep-imagism" in Canadian poetry.

Product Description: Book by Di Cicco, Pier Giorgio