Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Shadows Burning is a poetry book that wrestles with its angels--domestic love, fruition and desiccation, the passion for words that will suffice at bringing to light and shadow ground between the inner and outer life.
About the Author
W. S. Di Piero is a singular yet deceptive presence in American poetry. He fearlessly juxtaposes the Latinate and the Anglo-Saxon, the raunchy and the sacred, car horns and choirs. His line is edgy, razor-sharp, his syntax turbulent.