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The Leonard Lopate Show / August 27, 2008 / Chinese Apples: Poems by W.S. Di Piero

Chinese Apples: Poems by W.S. Di Piero

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

San Francisco-based poet and art critic W.S. Di Piero’s recent book of new and selected poems, Chinese Apples, ranges from character studies of his South Philadelphia youth and meditations on Italian-American culture, to word portraits of California.


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  • [1] M. Trocchia August 27, 2008 - 12:25PM

    Thanks goes to Mr. Di Piero for bringing the Italian poet Leonardo Sinisgalli into the English language. "The Ellipse: Selected Poems of LS" is is a wonder.


  • [2] Matt from Manhattan August 27, 2008 - 01:17PM

    Thanks also for the intro to the Leopardi book of aphorisms (can't remember the title now). It was very inspirational.


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