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9781938073762 1938073762 "With language that's as simple as it is musical, Di Piero sets dazzling moments amid plainsong." -The New York Times Book ReviewExplosive language, rough sensuousness, and an unflinching eye - here is a poet who doesn't look away and is committed to poetry's first purpose: to bring song. Tombo is a book of lyrics fueled in equal parts by realism and big-fish storytelling, a book of wanderers, foghorns, summer rain, feral cats, and city jazz. Built on heartbreak particulars, these poems are raw, mysterious dilations of the moments of existence. Di Piero's work has been praised by luminaries of the poetry world like Philip Levine, John Ashbery, Christian Wiman, the editor of POETRY, and also by The New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the San Francisco Chronicle., Explosive language, rough sensuousness, and an unflinching eye - here is a poet who doesn't look away and is committed to poetry's first purpose: to bring song. 'Tombo' is a book of lyrics fueled in equal parts by realism and big-fish storytelling, a book of wanderers, foghorns, summer rain, feral cats, and city jazz. Built on heartbreak particulars, these poems are raw, mysterious dilations of the moments of existence. Di Piero's work has been praised by luminaries of the poetry world like Philip Levine, John Ashbery, Christian Wiman, the editor of 'POETRY,' and also by 'The New York Times,' the 'Philadelphia Inquirer,' and the 'San Francisco Chronicle.', Explosive language, rough sensuousness, and an unflinching eye here is a poet who doesn't look away and is committed to poetry's first purpose: to bring song. Tombo is a book of lyrics fueled in equal parts by realism and big-fish storytelling, a book of wanderers, foghorns, summer rain, feral cats, and city jazz. Built on heartbreak particulars, these poems are raw, mysterious dilations of the moments of existence. Di Piero's work has been praised by luminaries of the poetry world like Philip Levine, John Ashbery, Christian Wiman, the editor of POETRY, and also by The New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
9781938073762 1938073762 "With language that's as simple as it is musical, Di Piero sets dazzling moments amid plainsong." -The New York Times Book ReviewExplosive language, rough sensuousness, and an unflinching eye - here is a poet who doesn't look away and is committed to poetry's first purpose: to bring song. Tombo is a book of lyrics fueled in equal parts by realism and big-fish storytelling, a book of wanderers, foghorns, summer rain, feral cats, and city jazz. Built on heartbreak particulars, these poems are raw, mysterious dilations of the moments of existence. Di Piero's work has been praised by luminaries of the poetry world like Philip Levine, John Ashbery, Christian Wiman, the editor of POETRY, and also by The New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the San Francisco Chronicle., Explosive language, rough sensuousness, and an unflinching eye - here is a poet who doesn't look away and is committed to poetry's first purpose: to bring song. 'Tombo' is a book of lyrics fueled in equal parts by realism and big-fish storytelling, a book of wanderers, foghorns, summer rain, feral cats, and city jazz. Built on heartbreak particulars, these poems are raw, mysterious dilations of the moments of existence. Di Piero's work has been praised by luminaries of the poetry world like Philip Levine, John Ashbery, Christian Wiman, the editor of 'POETRY,' and also by 'The New York Times,' the 'Philadelphia Inquirer,' and the 'San Francisco Chronicle.', Explosive language, rough sensuousness, and an unflinching eye here is a poet who doesn't look away and is committed to poetry's first purpose: to bring song. Tombo is a book of lyrics fueled in equal parts by realism and big-fish storytelling, a book of wanderers, foghorns, summer rain, feral cats, and city jazz. Built on heartbreak particulars, these poems are raw, mysterious dilations of the moments of existence. Di Piero's work has been praised by luminaries of the poetry world like Philip Levine, John Ashbery, Christian Wiman, the editor of POETRY, and also by The New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the San Francisco Chronicle.