Poetry. Italian American Studies. This is Emanuel di Pasquale’s latest collection of poetry. His previous work has been praised by the likes of X.J. Kennedy, Richard Wilbur, Dana Gioia, and Grace Cavalieri. In this collection di Pasquale continues to offer his reader wonderfully crafted poetry that is both wistful and emotive.

Praise for di Pasquale’s previous work: Emanuel di Pasquale’s HARVEST is a collection of poetry that observes the landscape, both physical and psychological, of the New York / New Jersey region. Prof. di Pasquale immigrated to the United States as a teenager and has devoted a career to the literature of his adopted nation as well as his maternal country. The work is quintessentially American, whether he describes a landscape in suburban New Jersey or a poetry reading at the foot of New York City’s Public Library. And yet, there is a hint of memory of the old country, a phrase, no doubt spoken with a sign that brings Southern Europe to Monmouth Beach … a work of superb poetry with imagery so crisp it could be used in a text book. More importantly, it is a testament of what was brought to this country over the last 150 years that resonates in our culture from the plaque on the Statue of Liberty to the slap of the waves on the California coast.–Ed Bennett