Necessary Light (Swenson Poetry Award)

Winner of the 1999 May Swenson Poetry Award, Patricia Fargnoli has also received the Robert Frost Literary Award, a fellowship at the MacDowell Colony, has been in residences many times at the Dorset Writers Colony, and has received several other awards for her poetry. Her work has been published in Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner , and many other literary journals.

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Fargnoli, Patricia

Poetry

Utah State University Press

Winner of the 1999 May Swenson Poetry Award, Patricia Fargnoli has also received the Robert Frost Literary Award, a fellowship at the MacDowell Colony, has been in residences many times at the Dorset Writers Colony, and has received several other awards for her poetry. Her work has been published in Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, and many other literary journals.

Readers will discover many facets of Fargnoli's voice, but two attributes that will most impress readers are, first, the almost shimmering gladness with which Ms. Fargnoli replies to the gifts of beauty and of human love; and, second, the compassion with which she addresses whatever is beyond her own intimate surroundings.-Mary Oliver
Duties of the Spirit comprises deeply moving, lyrical and unforgettable explorations of the joys and fears that come with growing older in America.

Duties of the Spirit

Tupelo Press

Poetry. THEN, SOMETHING has won the Sheila Motton Book Award from the New England Poetry Club, the Silver Award for 2010 Poetry Book of the Year from ForeWord Magazine, the 2010 da Vinci Eye Award, and Honorable Mention for the 2010 Eric Hoffer Award. "Patricia Fargnoli...does not miss a stitch of beauty, neither does she avoid the darker aspects of our own human awareness of our continual aging, to which she gives sharp and poignant attention. I have been her champion since her first book Necessary Light was published, and I continue to be so"--Mary Oliver.

Then, Something

Ice cream, ice cream, who wants ice cream? Hundreds of poets not only said a resounding "yes," but wrote about it. And from those hundreds, I accepted the 125 poems you will find here from 27 different states plus Australia, France, Iraq, Spain, and Tunisia. The poems are as various as the flavors of ice cream: long poems, short poems, and in addition to traditional free-verse narratives and lyrics: experimental poems, poems in forms such as sestinas, sapphics, sonnets, prose poems. When I accepted the job of editing, I wondered if I'd be bored by so many poems about ice cream; I wondered whether there would be hundreds of poems about The Good Humor Man or Dairy Queen. But I needn't have worried, I was never bored. The Good Humor Man and Dairy Queen poems were there, of course, but I was amazed by the wide variety of subjects: light humorous poems, sweet poems, lusty poems, dark poems, poems about childhood memories, a poem about Obama's first date, and a poem with Paul Newman in it. I am pleased with this final collection of ice cream poems. I think readers will enjoy them as much as I enjoyed reading and selecting them. --Patricia Fargnoli, Editor, author of Hallowed (Tupelo Press, 2017)

Ice Cream Poems: Reflections on Life with Ice Cream

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Kitchen Appliances

World Enough Writers

Poetry. In the sixth volume of the Hobblebush Granite State Poetry Series, Patricia Fargnoli weaves together themes of solitude, silence, and rebirth through vivid images of winter and the outdoors. "'There is a prologue to the articulate-that is the silence,' said Derek Wolcott. 'When that silence arrives, it can be the beginning of art.' As a prologue to her poems, Pat Fargnoli has listened deeply to the silence of winter, and the result is a collection of poems that capture the flame of the fox, the hunger of horses, and the solitude of snow-'the flakes settling on your parka / like the dust from just-born stars.' What is articulated through these poems stems not from reticence, but from quiet observation and wisdom. Such great attention teaches us 'the natural world comes to join you / if you go out to meet it,' and so we come to understand that 'truth is found in silence.'"—Meg Kearney "Open this book, and you will find 'a blind woman / who tells us / the dreams of the blind.' You will sense the snow in your hands and the 'scent of raspberries and lime, / a wooden chair rocking.' You will see a man who 'stands in a salt marsh up to his knees in the black water' and 'some stranger waving to another stranger, / waving.' Who are these strangers, reader, if not ourselves? Patricia Fargnoli loves this delicacy of suggestion, tells us the dreams of the blind, which are perhaps our own, tells us of the natural world, which around us is vanishing. This is a book where, 'before all the bridges have burned / the cows will come home.' Yes, for those who wait, 'Cometh the hour, cometh the cows.' And so, 'in the silence of horses,' one perhaps, hears one's own voice more clearly. And then come 'blind horses' with the naked woman, and also 'six white horses eating gray sky' and 'the horses rear and bolt with the wide-eyed children.' This is a bestiary of the spirit."—Ilya Kaminsky

Winter (Hobblebush Granite State Poetry, 6)

Hobblebush Books

Featuring selections from Patricia Fargnoli's four previous books along with twenty-four new poems, here is a celebration of poetic endurance, filled with quietly distinctive cadences and images closely seen, now freshly understood.

Hallowed: New and Selected Poems

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Necessary Light (Swenson Poetry Award)

Necessary Light (Swenson Poetry Award)

Duties of the Spirit

Then, Something

Ice Cream Poems: Reflections on Life with Ice Cream

Winter (Hobblebush Granite State Poetry, 6)

Hallowed: New and Selected Poems