Chinese Apples: New and Selected Poems

By W.S. Di Piero

Book Overview

Now in paperback- the "lovely and evocative book" ( San Francisco Chronicle ) of poems both new and old that celebrates a quarter century of passionate engagement with real life and its transformation into poetic form- the pull of faith and the poet's suspicion of transcendence, urban worlds and the mysterious jazz of street language, desire and sexual need, love and loss.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375711430
• ISBN13: 9780375711435
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Poetry you can understand!

Di Peiro's poetry is simply a revelation. For the poetry challenged, this is the poetry for you. The images simply leap off the page- it has all the best features of 'modern' poetry: brilliant invention of words and word combinations, spot on metaphors, colors, sights, sounds one can actually participate in. I've been so disappointed reading far-out modern stuff that seeks only to be clever, that celebrates only itself. Di Piero's poetry celebrates the world in all its striations. And best of all, we GET it!