West Pullman - Award-Winning Poetry Collection | Bordighera Poetry Prize Winner | Perfect for Book Clubs, Literary Gifts & Poetry Lovers
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Poetry. Translated from the English into the Italian by Franco Nasi. Carolyn Guinzio writes moving poems of great delicacy, balancing opposites and adjacents at once. She also writes a kind of sentence that switches mid-run like a train on its tracks, re-casting its syntax without so much as a how-do-you-do. Through the curtain of birds and insects, or the scrim made of the lives of unadorned citizens, she allows us to 'press so close to the unfamiliar' without making it any less strange. This is a gifted poet's first book"--Susan Wheeler. Guinzio's work has appeared in Colorado Review, Gettysburg Review, Indiana Review, New American Writing, Octopus and Willow Springs among other venues. Franco Nasi teaches Italian Contemporary Literature at the University of Modena.
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In West Pullman, Guinzio has written a marvelous book of poems intimately tied to a specific place (the neighborhood of West Pullman, Chicago's south side) yet broadening to include a series of poems on Pacific island birds. The glue that binds the poems together is that they all ask the universal question: "What is it / to be in the world?" Guinzio doesn't provide any easy answers. In fact, these poems are as much about listening as they are about answering that question. One poem implores, "Tell / your story, the great story of one / and many, composed of an imperfect / moment of silence." We are all ultimately alone in this world, but these poems offer solace in the fact that the poet is listening and recording.Guinzio's poems are embedded with the intricate, daily details of our lives, yet they rise to a lyric pitch that is at once beautiful and intense and built on "words that have become / like breath." -- A splendid debut, with more to come in the future, I hope.
