How to bring oneself to coincide with a foreign city? How to experience everyday life found on the streets of Rome or any other city? Whether it be in poetic prose or in verse, the texts of Words for the Traveler become chanting and lament for beings in search of answers when faced with unexpected doubt. One is asked to find in this book a need to survive at all cost, a obstinate desire for joy and incarnation. The noises of the world become a call to resist any sign of collapse. Poetry is a crossing, a path that leads to reality.

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Antonio D'Alfonso was born in Montreal. He studied at Loyola College from 1970 to 1975, where he got his B.A. in Communication Arts. Later on he went to Université de Montréal to complete his Master's Science Degree in Communication Studies, specializing in Semiology; his thesis was on Mouchette, a film by Robert Bresson. In 1978 he founded Guernica Editions, where he edited over 450 books by authors from around the world. In 1982 along with three other writers, he founds the trilingual magazine, Vice Versa. In 1986, along with three other writers, he founded the Association of Italian-Canadian writers. He has taught at Université of Montréal, Continuing Studies at University of Toronto, University of Californa, in San Diego. He is presently a writer in residence at McGill University (French language and literature department).

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