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"With language that's as simple as it is musical, Di Piero sets dazzling moments amid plainsong."--"The New York Times Book Review" "Di Piero's poems throb with the intensity of urban life, buried anger, and old griefs that still ache."--"San Francisco Chronicle" "Di Piero hopes to evoke something of the true mystery of present and recalled experience, and his poems powerfully enact this desire."--"The Philadelphia Inquirer" W.S. Di Piero marries a streetwise, working-class sensibility to an intellectual rigor and precise language in poems that stare down depression, failed love, and urban nightlife. In a fast-paced, half-cracked/half-sane style reminiscent of bebop solos, Di Piero forges masterful poems that "keep it close, loose, and sweaty," and restore life's intensity while showing where real hope might be found. From "Only in Things": "Some days, who can stare at swathes of sky, W.S. Di Piero was born in south Philadelphia and grew up in an Italian working-class neighborhood. He received a master's degree from San Francisco State University. His honors include a Guggenheim fellowship and the Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize for Italian translation. He teaches at Stanford University and lives in San Francisco, California.
One of Euripides' late plays, Ion is a complex enactment of mortals' attempts to understand the actions of the gods and their own conflicted natures. The play's beauty and violence, its lyrical delicacy and nearly tragic action, offer a compelling view of the human condition.
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