Second Collection
- Publisher
- Quattro Books
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2014
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897275870
- Publish Date
- Apr 2014
- List Price
- $16.00
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Where to buy it
Out of print
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Description
This second collection by Caroline Di Giovanni features the tri-part form of poems clustered around "Parents", "Places" and People", evocative of a triptych, sounding a classical balance, poise and grace.Every poem is informed with the poignant and seasoned wisdom of years, as in "Where Are the Boys?" as sons return for a final vigil over a dying mother or the exquisite enchantment of such poems as "Wartime Romance."This collection is looking back of a different sort, not nostalgia, but a peering through the layers of time with something true and meaningful to say about this fragile life and the journey we all share. -- Darlene Madott, author of Bressani award-winning Making Olives and Other Family Secrets, 2008 and Stations of the Heart, 2012
About the author
Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni grew up in suburban Philadelphia and studied at St. Michael's College, U of T. After graduate work in Boston, she returned to Toronto and has since lived here as an active participant in the vibrant Italian Canadian community. She is the author of Looking at Renaissance Paintings and Other Poems (Quattro Books: 2009) and the editor of two editions of Italian Canadian Voices (1984 and 2006), and a third anthology, Bravo! (Quattro Books: 2012).