Strong poems with photos of an American industrial area around Pittsburgh, with stories of family, Italian-American family life, the struggle to go on.
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Few books address the anxiety of moving between classes and the assimilation of second-generation immigrants with such urgency and poetic capability as Paola Corso's first collection of poems." --The Indiana Review
"Poems drawn out like monologues from an Italian John Wideman, Corso's work captures the voice and rhythms of her remembered world."--Pittsburgh Magazine
"Geoge Mendel's richly evocative photos are little touches of worn worlds that complement Corso's work." Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Varied in sound, form, and voice, Corsos poems are united by a vivid immediacy of people and place and an elegiac core. Through the rhythms of machinery, speech, memory, and human interaction, she makes us realize the vitality we lose when a community dies.
Walter Cummins
Paola Corsos poems are tough, edgy, often unsettlingpopulated with tender sinners and tough-as-nail saints. In her full-length debut, Death by Renaissance, she blends the political with the mythic, family life with social annotations, to create an urgent and compelling collection. Corsos hardships and joys are palpable in each of her poems. She is a poet we root for!
Denise Duhamel
"Poems drawn out like monologues from an Italian John Wideman, Corso's work captures the voice and rhythms of her remembered world."--Pittsburgh Magazine
"Geoge Mendel's richly evocative photos are little touches of worn worlds that complement Corso's work." Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Varied in sound, form, and voice, Corsos poems are united by a vivid immediacy of people and place and an elegiac core. Through the rhythms of machinery, speech, memory, and human interaction, she makes us realize the vitality we lose when a community dies.
Walter Cummins
Paola Corsos poems are tough, edgy, often unsettlingpopulated with tender sinners and tough-as-nail saints. In her full-length debut, Death by Renaissance, she blends the political with the mythic, family life with social annotations, to create an urgent and compelling collection. Corsos hardships and joys are palpable in each of her poems. She is a poet we root for!
Denise Duhamel
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Poems, photos, stories of a working-class, Italian-American family at a time of passage from industrial to post-industrial America. The photos tell a story that the poems confirm and deepen.
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- Beyond Rust by Larry Smith in Back Matter
- Working Hard for the Money: America's Working Poor in Stories, Poems, and Photos by Mary E. Weems in Back Matter
- Blind Horse by Jeanne Bryner in Back Matter
- Ohio Trio by Allen Frost in Back Matter
- Human Landscapes: Three Books of Poems by D. Smith in Back Matter
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- Escape to the Promised Land: Poems by Herbert Woodward Martin in Back Matter
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