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Death
by Renaissance
Poems
by
Paola Corso
with photographs
by George Thomas Mendel
Trade Paperback
ISBN: 0-933087-86-1
Bottom Dog Press, 2004
104 pages
"Paola
Corso’s poems are tough, edgy, often unsettling—populated
with tender sinners and tough-as-nail saints. She blends the political with the
mythic, family life with social annotations, to create an urgent and compelling
collection. Corso's hardships and joys are palpable in each of her poems. She is
a poet we root for!"
—Denise
Duhamel, author
of Queen
for a Day: Selected and New Poems
"Varied
in sound, form, and voice, Corso’s poems are united by a vivid immediacy of
people and place and an elegiac core. Through the rhythms of machinery, speech,
memory, and human interaction, she makes us realize the vitality we lose when a
community dies."
—Walter
Cummins,
Literary
Review
Editor Emeritus
"Few
books address the anxiety of moving between classes and the assimilation of
second-generation immigrants with such urgency and poetic capability as Paola
Corso's first collection of poems Death by
Renaissance."
—The
Indiana
Review
"Personal
poems that make the sounds of an entire community."
—Fra
Noi
"Poems
drawn out like monologues from an Italian John Wideman, Corso's work captures
the voice and rhythms of her remembered world."
—Pittsburgh
Magazine
"Refusing
to be too easily understood, these poems demand and amply repay repeated
reading."
—Michael
Palma, author
of
A
Fortune in Gold, Inferno: A New Verse Translation
"A
welcome addition to working-class literature."
—Patricia
Dobler, author of Collected
Poems
"Like
Corso's poems, George Thomas Mendel's documentary photos of the
Pittsburgh
area today revel in shaking up and
restoring the reader to meanings and location and shift the nature of the book
from poetry collection to scrapbook to historical document."
—Italian Americana
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an Excerpt
or view George
Thomas Mendel's photos.
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