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2017., General, MisFit, an imprint of ECW Press Call No: QWF 811.54 D535b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Referencing the post-war neorealist film by Vittorio De Sica, Mary di Michele's Bicycle Thieves commemorates her Italian past and her life in Canada through elegy and acts of translation of text and of self. The collection opens with a kind of hymn to life on the planet, sung from the peak of that urban island, Montreal - an attempt to see beyond death. The book moves into a sequence of poems described by Sharon Thesen as the poet "envisioning the passage of time under the 'full and waning' moon of Mount Royal's beacon cross, recalling her Italian immigrant parents in Toronto and her current life in Montreal [. . .] a sort of Decameron." Thesen's description is apt for the collection as a whole, which moves into the poet's autobiography - in search of catharsis through literature - and pays tributes to poets who have been part of the literary landscape di Michele now inhabits. Bicycle Thieves is poetry as time machine, transcending the borders between life and death, language and culture. Mary di Michele, born in Lanciano, Italy, is an Italian-Canadian poet and author. She immigrated to Toronto with her family in 1955. She is a professor at Concordia University in Montreal where she teaches in creative writing.
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c2011., ECW Press Call No: QWF 811.54 D536f Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Written as a kind of historical narrative in verse, the poems in this collection depict the coming of age and sexual awareness of the great Italian writer and film director, Pier Paolo Pasolini. The time of this story is World War II; the place is German-occupied northern Italy. Unlike his younger brother, Guido, who took up arms to fight in the resistance, Pasolini chose to help his mother set up a school for the boys too young to fight or be conscripted. The situation ignited an internal war for the young Pasolini that nearly eclipsed the historical moment: a battle within between his desire for boys and his Catholic faith and culture. In addition to the poems that juxtapose Pasoliniœs struggle against the backdrop of political and cultural fascism, the book also includes a prologue and an epilogue that details the authorœs pilgrimage to the site and her research into the time that shaped Pasolini as a man and as an artist.Show More Show Less.
