The Country of Absence: Poems and an Essay

by Jennifer Lagier and Felix Stefanile

Poetry. These poems, chosen from previously published works, comment upon facets of an Italian American experience. In the introductory essay titled The Allegory of the Hyphen, Stefanile identifies his eponymous country of absence as that undiscovered country of America as language, the discovery of which formed his life as a poet. For a long time now, Felix Stefanile has been among the most consistently interesting poets in America....Readers who...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1884419283
• ISBN13: 9781884419287
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Bordighera Press
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.1" x 8.1"