Domain: Works-In Progress by G.T. James & Paul Vangelisti, With a Sequence of Photographs by Joe Goode

Vangelisti, Paul

James, G. T.

Red Hill Pr

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. An older man's not-so-divine comedy, Vangelisti's FALSETTO is in three parts, corresponding to Hell, Purgatory and Paradise: namely, "Westernmost," the Los Angeles of a poet's daybook; the fool's purgatory of "An Italian Journal," some three weeks up & down the peninsula; and finally, "Wholly Falsetto with People Dancing," an alphabetical memoir of that invisible country of dead poets and loves that are no more. The trips through the first two territories in the work, Los Angeles and Italy, are documented more or less "on the run," in stark contrast to the contemplative nature of the final section of recollections. Among the several subjects interwoven throughout the narrative is Vangelisti's exploration of an 'un-American' literary tradition, set up against that of the dominant Anglo-American culture.

Wholly Falsetto with People Dancing

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Otis Books | Seismicity Editions

Embarrassment of Survival: Selected Poems 1970-2000

Poetry

Marsilio Pub

Poetry. "In TWO, Paul Vangelisti connects the antipodes of the extraordinary literary geography he has been creating through the course of his numerous previous works. Taken separately or together, the diptych of TWO finds Paul Vangelisti at the height of his poetic, intellectual and philosophical powers. Simply put, there are precious few poets writing now who can match Vangelisti's brilliance"&mdash;Dennis Phillips. TWO includes the complete works "Alabaster" and "A Capable Hand, or Maps for a Lost Dog."

Talisman House, Publishers

A collection of Paul Vangelisti's longer poems spanning the last two decades, whose urgent motive is a formal, personal and ideological meditation on the Roman alphabet, that seemingly most casual and chaotic of all necessities. Vangelisti's Alphabets begins with "Los Alephs" (1986) and "Alephs Again" (1988), both using 26 alphabetically organized stanzas; and moves to an aaedarium or alphabetical history, "A Life" (1991), as well as the bestiary and biography of friends and literary influences, "The Simple Life" (1993) The book concludes with the double-alphabet (52 part) musical sequence, "Rhum" (1995), a meditation on number and evil

Alphabets

Littoral Books

Noted poet and translator Paul Vangelisti reflects upon urban living, love, and friendships in the context of the transience of life in this new collection, his twenty-third to date. Vangelisti recently won the PEN American Center award for his co-translation of Amelia Rosselli’s War Variations (Green Integer 121).

Days Shadows Pass (Green Integer)

Green Integer

Poetry. LIQUID PRISONER is the latest book from prolific American poet Paul Vangelisti. In this collection of 77 sonnets each poem is a response to the even-numbered poems of Shakespeare. The title comes from a line in Shakespeare's 5th sonnet, "A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass." Vangelisti sees each of the original sonnets as dramatic scenes, and his reflections often rely on the Great American Songbook. With a dreamed-up reconfigured rhyme scheme, Vangelisti invigorates an old form in an entirely new way.

Liquid Prisoner

Lithic Press

Fragment Science / Tecnici del bianco (Collana Rossa -scrittura E Invenzione-, 35) (English and Italian Edition)

Arts & Photography

Lithic Pr

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