The Complaints
Published on 15. February 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
72 pages
978-0-88748-646-3 (ISBN)
Description
"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 pulling the extraordinary ordinary. These sensuous poems speak of the ways we're hostages to chance and circumstance. Whether Di Piero writes about cranes migrating, city scavengers, diners, bars, bad weather, or movies and the memories they make, he reminds us how "We bone and tissue creatures stir up embers / of fiery wish."
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 pulling the extraordinary ordinary. These sensuous poems speak of the ways we're hostages to chance and circumstance. Whether Di Piero writes about cranes migrating, city scavengers, diners, bars, bad weather, or movies and the memories they make, he reminds us how "We bone and tissue creatures stir up embers / of fiery wish."
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Language
English
Place of publication
Pittsburgh
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
91 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-88748-646-3 (9780887486463)
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Person
W.S. Di Piero is a poet, essayist, art critic, and translator. He has taught at Northwestern University, Louisiana State University, and Stanford University, where he is professor emeritus of English and on faculty in the Stegner Poetry Workshop. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2012. Di Piero is the author of numerous collections of poetry and of essays on literary and visual art.