Chinese Apples: New and Selected Poems

(Paperback)

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Now in paperback: the lovely and evocative book (San Francisco Chronicle) of poems both new and old that celebrates a quarter century of passionate engagement with real life and its transformation into poetic form: the pull of faith and the poets suspicion of transcendence, urban worlds and the mysterious jazz of street language, desire and sexual need, love and loss.

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[A] fine book . . . Its clear that what Di Piero believes in is poetry, not redemptively but descriptively. Poetry allows him to see the world, which enables him to bear living in it. Poetry

Di Pieros verses resound with tiny correspondences and internal echoes, and the density of his later poems, despite their readerfriendliness and beautiful images, weighs hard on the readers heart, leaving an impress that is slow to fade. The Philadelphia Inquirer

Author Bio

W. S. Di Piero was born in South Philadelphia in 1945. He is the author of eight previous books of poetry, as well as three volumes of translation from the Italian. The recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts grant, he lives in San Francisco.