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Product Description: 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...read more

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9781938073762 | McSweeneys Books, January 7, 2014, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: 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.

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9781556593802 | Copper Canyon Pr, December 13, 2011, cover price $15.00

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Product Description: Now in paperback: the “lovely and evocative book” (San Francisco Chronicle) of poems both new and old that celebrates a quarter century of passionate engagement with real life and its transformation into poetic form: the pull of faith and the poet’s suspicion of transcendence, urban worlds and the mysterious jazz of street language, desire and sexual need, love and loss...read more

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9780307265388 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 6, 2007, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: In a collection that spans the full career of the poet, the author of Brother Fire explores the rich contradictions of life--unbelief and transcendance, desire and loss, the rhythms of street language--in a volume inspired by his adopted hometown of San Francisco, Italy and its culture, and his native South Philadelphia.

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9780375711435 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, July 14, 2009, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Now in paperback: the “lovely and evocative book” (San Francisco Chronicle) of poems both new and old that celebrates a quarter century of passionate engagement with real life and its transformation into poetic form: the pull of faith and the poet’s suspicion of transcendence, urban worlds and the mysterious jazz of street language, desire and sexual need, love and loss.

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Product Description: When a self-proclaimed "lazy scholar" embarks on a trip through his life's influences--as diverse as girl-group doo-wop, Yeats, and Van Gogh--readers are in for an illuminating ride. This collection of essays from cultural critic Di Piero veers from his early years as the son of immigrants in Philadelphia to his working life in art, film, music, and poetry...read more

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9780810125162 | Reprint edition (Northwestern Univ Pr, March 19, 2009), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: When a self-proclaimed "lazy scholar" embarks on a trip through his life's influences--as diverse as girl-group doo-wop, Yeats, and Van Gogh--readers are in for an illuminating ride.

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Exploring the spirit and substance of illumination in all its diverse forms, a new collection of poetry by the author of Skirts and Slacks explores the meaning--or quest for meaning--in the rituals, events, festivals, holidays, and ordinary experiences of our lives, in such works as 'The Kiss,' 'Didn't You Say Desire Is,' and 'Prayer Meeting.'

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9781400042036 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 2004, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Exploring the spirit and substance of illumination in all its diverse forms, a new collection of poetry by the author of Skirts and Slacks explores the meaning--or quest for meaning--in the rituals, events, festivals, holidays, and ordinary experiences of our lives, in such works as 'The Kiss,' 'Didn't You Say Desire Is,' and 'Prayer Meeting.

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Product Description: Showing Elderfield’s distinct view of South Philadelphia, this book documents a big scope of "street life", ranging from snapshots to carefully composed pictures. These beautiful black and white photographs strike the eye because of their lyrical quality, which is enhanced and complemented by contemporary poems...read more

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9783936636055 | Bilingual edition (Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, December 1, 2003), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Showing Elderfield’s distinct view of South Philadelphia, this book documents a big scope of "street life", ranging from snapshots to carefully composed pictures.

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Filled with bittersweet sentiments and observations of middle age, this collection of poems explores this important life passage. Reprint.

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9780375709425 | Reprint edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 2002), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Filled with bittersweet sentiments and observations of middle age, this collection of poems explores this important life passage.

Filled with bittersweet sentiments and observations of middle age, this collection of poems explores this important life passage. (view table of contents)

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9780375411533 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 2001, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Collects poems about the author's passage to adulthood, revisiting the death of his parents and finding the art in everyday life; includes the poems 'Hermes: Port Authority: His Song' and 'Vincent van Gogh's Self-Portrait: 1887.

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Essays discuss poetry, Thomas McGrath, Hayden Carruth, Edwin Muir, Minor White, Lee Friedlander, restorations, and the interrelationships between the arts

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9780810150515 | Triquarterly Books, June 3, 1996, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss poetry, Thomas McGrath, Hayden Carruth, Edwin Muir, Minor White, Lee Friedlander, restorations, and the interrelationships between the arts

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9780810150522 | Triquarterly Books, June 3, 1996, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss poetry, Thomas McGrath, Hayden Carruth, Edwin Muir, Minor White, Lee Friedlander, restorations, and the interrelationships between the arts

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Product Description: Book by Di Piero, W. S.

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9780810150195 | Northwestern Univ Pr, November 22, 1995, cover price $39.95

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9780810150201 | Triquarterly Books, November 22, 1995, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Book by Di Piero, W.

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Product Description: Out of Eden presents the rigorous investigations and musings of a poet-essayist on the ways in which modern artists have confronted and transfigured the realist tradition of representation. Di Piero pursues his theme with an autobiographical force and immediacy...read more

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9780520070653 | Univ of California Pr, August 1, 1991, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Out of Eden presents the rigorous investigations and musings of a poet-essayist on the ways in which modern artists have confronted and transfigured the realist tradition of representation.

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9780520084322 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, October 1, 1993), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Out of Eden presents the rigorous investigations and musings of a poet-essayist on the ways in which modern artists have confronted and transfigured the realist tradition of representation.

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By W. S. Di Piero (introduced by) and Gregory Gillespie

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9780941576192 | Wittenborn Art Books, December 1, 1992, cover price $25.00

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Product Description: The poems in this, W. S. Di Piero's fifth collection of poetry, are animated by an ancient vision of the human state as existing somewhere between the divine and the bestial; tense with the compulsion toward formal order and the wild yearning after chaos, these are tough poems, gritty and relentless; they indulge neither the reader nor the poet...read more

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9780226153469 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: The poems in this, W.

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9780226153476 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 1, 1992, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The poems in this, W.

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Product Description: Book by Di Piero, W. S.

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9780870237034 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, November 1, 1990, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Book by Di Piero, W.

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9780870237041 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $19.95

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A collection of essays examine the works of such notables as Keats, Dante, Leopardi, and Whitman and includes an informal section of autobiographical entries from the author's notebooks

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9780691067568 | Princeton Univ Pr, May 1, 1989, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A collection of essays examine the works of such notables as Keats, Dante, Leopardi, and Whitman and includes an informal section of autobiographical entries from the author's notebooks

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9780691014630 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 1, 1989, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays examine the works of such notables as Keats, Dante, Leopardi, and Whitman and includes an informal section of autobiographical entries from the author's notebooks

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Product Description: The Description for this book, The Ellipse: Selected Poems of Leonardo Sinisgalli, will be forthcoming.

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9780691013978 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 1, 1982, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The Description for this book, The Ellipse: Selected Poems of Leonardo Sinisgalli, will be forthcoming.

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