{"id":5007,"date":"2016-03-07T17:07:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T17:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregglory.com\/wordpress\/?p=5007"},"modified":"2023-07-08T10:19:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T10:19:42","slug":"knowing-the-moment-by-emanuel-di-pasquale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/posts\/knowing-the-moment-by-emanuel-di-pasquale\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowing the Moment by Emanuel di Pasquale"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.left-thumbnail img {display: none; }\n<\/style>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zme-caps.amazon.com\/asset\/SSE\/content\/5090361\/THUMBNAIL_IMAGE?versionId=3&amp;awsClient=416214191754%3Auser%2FMainsite&amp;urlMethod=GET&amp;expires=31536000000000&amp;requestId=71476f0e-700d-11e4-abf7-8b402767b366&amp;sig=1fda20dda58044d5f3984de0a624ddef782c1edf02a8343df3690c44071c56dd&amp;serial=1\" alt=\"Knowing the Moment\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b> Authored by Emanuel di Pasquale <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a title=\"Knowing the Moment\" href=\"https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/5090361\">Purchase on CreateSpace<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a title=\"Knowing the Moment\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Knowing-Moment-Emanuel-Pasquale\/dp\/1503117472\">Purchase on Amazon<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Love is the Mouth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Love is the mouth<br \/>\nthat tears rind,<br \/>\nthat chews pulp<br \/>\nand sucks juices.<br \/>\nLove is the mouth<br \/>\nthat swallows seeds.<br \/>\nAnd love is the mouth<br \/>\nthat bitches<br \/>\nat orange bits<br \/>\nstuck in its teeth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the Introduction<\/strong><br \/>\nThere is something elemental about the poetry of Emanuel di Pasquale, an immediacy that comes from a direct and visceral relation to whatever he is writing about-whether nature or human interaction. It is the kind of directness that di Pasquale admires in Whitman and Dickinson-evidence that he, like them, has more than an academic acquaintance with the world and its changes. He has experienced them and understands how to make us experience them, too, through words.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>About the author:<\/b><br \/>\nEmanuel di Pasquale<\/p>\n<p>I was born in Ragusa, Sicily, in 1943, and came to America, by ship, in December of 1956.<br \/>\nMy mother, a clairvoyant, had a vision: if she brought me to America, I would accomplish great things. So she did. I went to Sleepy Hollow High School, in Tarrytown, New York, and graduated in three years. Then I went to Adelphi University, English major, and then went to NYU, Greenwich Village, for a master&#8217;s plus in English. From 1966 to &#8217;68 I taught English at one of the original &#8216;Negro Colleges,&#8217; Elizabeth State University in North Carolina. In 68 I moved to Middlesex County College, NJ, where I am still teaching.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book Publications<\/strong><br \/>\nMy first poetry book was:<br \/>\nGenesis (BOA Editions, 1980)<br \/>\nThen came:<br \/>\nThe Silver Lake Love Poems (Bordighera Press)<br \/>\nEscapes the Night (Gradiva Publications)<br \/>\nCartwheel to the Moon (a book for children, Cricket Books, 2003)<br \/>\nEuropa (Gradiva Publication, 2006)<br \/>\nWriting Anew: New and Selected Poems (Bordighera, 2007)<br \/>\nSiciliana (Bordighera Press, 2010)<br \/>\nHarvest (Bordighera Press, 2011)<br \/>\nOut of Stars and Sand (Gradiva Publications, 2012)<br \/>\nLove Lines (Bordighera Press, 2013)<br \/>\nThe Ocean&#8217;s Will (Guernica, 2013)<br \/>\nSelf-portrait (The New York Quarterly Press, 2014)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prizes<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Bordighera Poetry Prize for translating Joe Salerno book, The Magnolia Tree, into Italian.<br \/>\nThe Raiziss de\/Palchi Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets for translating the poetry of Silvio Ramat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translation<\/strong><br \/>\nAmong my many translations from the Italian is Dante&#8217;s La Vita Nuova (Xenos Books, 2012)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor<\/strong><br \/>\nI am the editor-in-chief of my college&#8217;s literary journal (Middlesex County College).  For a number of years, I was the poetry editor of Chelsea, a NYC literary journal.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something elemental about the poetry of Emanuel di Pasquale, an immediacy that comes from a direct and visceral relation to whatever he is writing about-whether nature or human interaction. It is the kind of directness that di Pasquale admires in Whitman and Dickinson-evidence that he, like them, has more than an academic acquaintance with the world and its changes. 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