Bøger af Emanuel di Pasquale

Counting the Stars is a lyrical, celebratory work-hailing the human connection with nature.

Love is the Mouth Love is the mouth that tears rind, that chews pulp and sucks juices. Love is the mouth that swallows seeds. And love is the mouth that bitches at orange bits stuck in its teeth. From the Introduction There is something elemental about the poetry of Emanuel di Pasquale, an immediacy that comes from a direct and visceral relation to whatever he is writing about-whether nature or human interaction. It is the kind of directness that di Pasquale admires in Whitman and Dickinson-evidence that he, like them, has more than an academic acquaintance with the world and its changes. He has experienced them and understands how to make us experience them, too, through words.

As the title "Palisades, Parkways & Pinelands" implies, the book at hand has grown from New Jersey roots. More specifically, it is an outgrowth of the Pier Village Poetry Festival, held in view of the Atlantic in Long Branch, New Jersey, on the Fourth of July 2015. For that event, organizer and Long Branch Poet Laureate Emanuel di Pasquale called together some twenty poets from the far-flung New Jersey poetry tribe. A sampling of their work, along with that of others who could only be present in spirit that day, is included in the present volume. As its genesis and development suggest, "Palisades, Parkways & Pinelands" is meant to be a celebration of contemporary New Jersey poetry and a continuation of a long poetic tradition in the Garden State that stretches back to colonial times.

Poetry. "Emanuel di Pasquale writes with reverence and wonder, like some Adam first laying eyes on beast and tree, bestowing names upon them...I find di Pasquale an astonishing and delightful poet, a visionary miraculously set down in New Jersey, and a true original" -- X.J. Kennedy.

Poetry. Italian American Studies. This is Emanuel di Pasquale's latest collection of poetry. His previous work has been praised by the likes of X.J. Kennedy, Richard Wilbur, Dana Gioia, and Grace Cavalieri. In this collection di Pasquale continues to offer his reader wonderfully crafted poetry that is both wistful and emotive.Praise for di Pasquale's previous work: "Emanuel di Pasquale's HARVEST is a collection of poetry that observes the landscape, both physical and psychological, of the New York / New Jersey region. Prof. di Pasquale immigrated to the United States as a teenager and has devoted a career to the literature of his adopted nation as well as his maternal country. The work is quintessentially American, whether he describes a landscape in suburban New Jersey or a poetry reading at the foot of New York City's Public Library. And yet, there is a hint of memory of the old country, a phrase, no doubt spoken with a sign that brings Southern Europe to Monmouth Beach ... a work of superb poetry with imagery so crisp it could be used in a text book. More importantly, it is a testament of what was brought to this country over the last 150 years that resonates in our culture from the plaque on the Statue of Liberty to the slap of the waves on the California coast."--Ed Bennett

Emanuel di Pasquale's poems should be read by every American . . . He excels at the short lyric, writes directly, and feels deeply . . . The reader is enriched by both his Sicilian and his American realizations in his life-enhancing lines. - Richard Eberhart[di Pasquale] writes out of strong experience, and by insisting on accuracy, he comes out both simple and surprising. He's never decorative: there is always something human happening, and his words are close to it. - Richard Wilbur

(Pasquale) has an ability to create what the reader needs to feel and wants to know. He lifts us with an ecstatic imagination, placing us exactly there, happily at the center, as if we've found the right dream.--Grace Calavieri.

In Cartwheel to the Moon, Emanuel di Pasquale takes us to Sicily, the Mediterranean island where he was born. His beautiful, lyrical, sensitive poems recall the smell of the fig trees, the sound of the fountains, the beauty of the old villages surrounded by mountains. As X. J. Kennedy says in his foreword, "These are poems that seem to reach out and grasp real things. Di Pasquale weaves words into music that stays with you."Di Pasquale has long been a favorite poets of children and anthologists, and now readers have a chance to see his works collected in a book of his own. His poems have been included in several anthologies, including Knock At a Star,X.J.Kenndy, ed and Call Down the Moon, Myra Cohm Livingston, ed.