A translator of Euripides, Giacomo Leopardi, Sandro Penna, Leonardo Sinisgalli and others; a careful critic who has produced three books' worth of essays on modern art and poetry; and the author of six previous collections of poems, Stanford...
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W. S. Di Piero, Author . Knopf $24 (72p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4203-6
Fresh wedding cakes in bakery windows, panties on clothes lines, Howdy Doody
on television all appear within sleek, minimally punctuated, fast-moving lines in Di Piero's eighth collection. But for all of their grounding in the real, these works
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W. S. Di Piero, Author Triquarterly Books $18 (222p) ISBN 978-0-8101-5052-2
In this wide-ranging collection of essays, art criticism, memoirs and notebook excerpts, poet and essayist Di Piero (The Dog Star; Memory and Enthusiasm) continues to explore his lifelong passions--literary and visual art--from a personal...
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W. S. Di Piero, Author Triquarterly Books $34.95 (222p) ISBN 978-0-8101-5051-5
In this wide-ranging collection of essays, art criticism, memoirs and notebook excerpts, poet and essayist Di Piero (The Dog Star; Memory and Enthusiasm) continues to explore his lifelong passions--literary and visual art--from a personal...
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W. S. Di Piero, Author Northwestern University Press $17.95 (195p) ISBN 978-0-8101-2516-2
A poet, translator, art reviewer, essayist and Stanford University professor, Di Piero clearly has a studied understanding of creative expression and its analysis, though in this new collection of essays it's applied to a too-wide range of ideas and
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W. S. Di Piero, Author University of Massachusetts Press $20 (64p) ISBN 978-0-87023-703-4
Touching on elements of myth, history, religion and personal experience, Di Piero ( Early Light ) sets out to probe the many facets of human suffering and desire, and the ways in which we struggle to make sense of the ``gentle incoherence'' of the...
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W. S. Di Piero, Author . Knopf $26.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-307-26538-8
DiPiero's motto might be, "Here I am again trying to say/ what I see." The eighth volume and first selected from this San Francisco–based poet and art critic (Brother Fire
) shows a scrupulous, if grim, observer and listener, one...
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W.S. Di Piero. Copper Canyon (Consortium, dist.), $15 trade paper (65p) ISBN 978-1-55659-380-2
Di Piero takes the William Carlos Williams maxim “no ideas but in things” and explodes it into a storm of images in this 10th collection. There is music in his layering, in how “turning wheels and wind-trash and revolving doors/ weave us into...
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W.S. Di Piero. McSweeney’s (PGW, dist.), $20 (80p) ISBN 978-1-938073-76-2
Di Piero (Nitro Nights), an essayist and winner of the 2012 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, delivers an effusive and musical collection (his 11th) that traverses strange landscapes replete with “systemic pleasures.../ that make us feel at home in our...
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