Dennis Hollingsworth

TWO

My neighbor in Echo Park and good friend, Paul Vangelisti will present and read a selection from his new work, "TWO":

Two (Talisman House)

Paul Vangelisti makes his long awaited return to Skylight Books to celebrate a new collection of work.

"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"?Dennis Phillips. TWO includes the complete works "Alabaster" and "A Capable Hand, or Maps for a Lost Dog."

Paul Vangelisti is the author of more than twenty books of poetry, as well as being a noted translator from Italian. His new book, Two, was just published by Talisman House, and his translation of Adriano Spatola?s The Position of Things: Collected Poems, 1961-1992, won the Academy of American Poets? Raizzis/de Palchi Book Prize for Translation this past fall. Vangelisti is Founding Chair of the Graduate Writing program at Otis College of Art & Design

Posted by Dennis at April 2, 2011 10:26 AM