a toast to illness
- Publisher
- Quattro Books
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2001
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781988254616
- Publish Date
- Dec 2001
- List Price
- $20
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Description
This new poetry collection by Corrado Paina explores the induced meditations and considerations that illness imposes upon a body and mind.
About the author
Corrado Paina lives and writes in Toronto. He is published in Canada by Mansfield Press: Hoarse Legend (2000), The Dowry of Education (2004), The Alphabet of the Traveler (2006), and Souls in Plain Clothes (2008). He was the editor of College Street -- Little Italy Toronto's Renaissance Strip, a finalist for the Toronto Heritage Award. In Italy he has published a collection of short stories entitled di corsa (Monteleone/Mapograph -- Vibo Valentia), the novel tra Rothko e tre finestre (Ibiskos), the collections of poetry tempo rubato (Atelier 14 -- Milano) darsena inquinata (Moderata durant -- Latina), l'alfabeto del viaggiatore (Silvio Editrice) and Abecedario (with etchings by Sandro Martini, printed by Paolo Nava).