Go Tell It to the Emperor: The Selected Poems of Pierluigi Cappello

Pierluigi Cappello's poems seem all to have been written in pencil: elegies for fading memories, they threaten impermanence on the page. And yet the words hold, so assured are they in their leave-taking. What results is a startling optimism, a cool resignation. 'The future is what remains, what's left of all that's been called upon' he writes in the poem 'Shadows'--and then, as if in revolt: 'to the rifling past of 'summoned faces, I add my own'--

• | Author: Pierluigi Cappello, Todd Portnowitz
• | Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil Publishing
• | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 182 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1949966364
• | ISBN-13: 9781949966367