Poetry. Bilingual poems in Italian and English. Illustrations by Rocco Cafiso. 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.