He is a Lecturer at Manhattanville College and a Professor of Creative Writing at Columbia University, and he serves on the Editorial Board of Alice James Books. Raw and powerful, ozer’s work tethers the emotional to the scientific and offers hope for the most universal of conditions: “I know you are / lonely right now / but I have ideas. Somehow, his background in philosophy made me feel like a philosopher and historian all the same reading this book as well. In this close narrative, Seidlinger captures the doubt, desperation, and deceit involved in finding purpose. They feel familiar not only because Italian culture feels warm and inviting, but because their stories and wisdom are in us - in some way - too.

The concerns of Hopple’s lifelike characters thread through each other, creating a cinematic tapestry evocative of a great Robert Altman movie. She now plans to attend one of his book readings in Scotland, which is his reason for travelling here – a promotional book tour. A wonderfully gripping, tender tale of youthful destruction, reluctant adulthood, and the toughest kind of brotherly love.Salad Days mines life’s dry and youthful indiscretions and relates them in these sharp and cheeky poems.

Leonardo Gemetti, a young man from Lunetto, has been missing for nearly eight years, and all his village knows of him is that he has carried out an atrocity against the Italian partisans in Mussolini's fallen Republic of Salò. While navigating the busier blocks of Times Square, he stumbles upon a restaurant opening and an enigmatic man named Jiro protesting the grand opening.Bud Smith, author of Double Bird and WORK “If it were 1955, Duncan Birmingham would be famous for this hyperreal book of sad funny short stories. I've just finished it tonight, and I'm sure I'll have more intelligent things to say about it later, but for now I just want to say something like 'wow. At first I wasn't sure about having some of the dialogue in Italian, but it's a very limited amount and I ended up feeling like I was immersed in the world of the characters, so at the end I was won over by the techniques that got me to that place. His books of poetry include The Crossing (2018), Vincent (2015), Inheritance (2014), and Fugue for Other Hands (2013).

I drew, of course, on personal experience, on my time in Italy, on family legends, on reading, on breathing, on life. LOST IN THE LAND OF BEARS (July 2016) is a cross-genre tale-in-tweets with quirky creatures and machines in the forest. Hey, you've been to Zion, I walked the Narrows during a flood, didn't know if I would come out alive.The Swallows of Lunetto by alumnus and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Undergraduate Creative Writing Joseph Fasano '08 was recently bought by Mallory Smart at Maudlin House. Leonardo Gemetti, a young man from Lunetto, has been missing for nearly eight years, and all his village knows of him is that he has carried out an atrocity against the Italian partisans in Mussolini's fallen Republic of Saláo. There are so many reminders here to never choose between any one thing and the other, but to be both, be all, be above and below, be surrounded, be related. He is a co-founder and member of the arts collective, The Accomplices, and founder of the indie press, Civil Coping Mechanisms (CCM).

His honors include the Cider Press Review Book Award, the Rattle Poetry Prize, and a nomination for the Poets' Prize, "awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award year. But although she’s inspired by a hot virtual relationship with her internet boyfriend, everything else falls apart, in a tornado of relentless rejection.I wish I could give myself this book at fifteen while I was still learning how to love and be loved. The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing does not currently have an audio format, unfortunately, but here is a clip of me reading the first chapt …more Hi, Libby. And it is a story of the love and forgiveness that just might be possible not only in spite of but because of the ways in which we have erred. Just as importantly—but no more or less—if your novel draws profoundly on history, does it have the details right?