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EASTERN VILLAGE WITH FACTORY

 

 

Dogs bark in untended fields.  Outside, artificial light

Pools the road nobody’s died on with men sauntering

The graveyard shift, unafraid to sing alone.  I stretch out

And find I married a woman who doesn’t care that they

Have picked up the ambrosial bouquet of sex––neatly

Wrapped in tissue paper––at the foot of our bed.  She

Welcomes the rabid charge.  Anything that reminds her

She belongs to the faint hinterland.  She keeps the doors

Unlocked. I say nothing.  Men or dogs.  There will be no

Other end.

 

First published in 32 Poems Magazine

 

 

 

 

Seven poems in English, and German translations by Jürgen Brôcan, at Poetenladen.

 

Three poems, one translation, and readings at The Cortland Review.

 

Three poems at The White Whale Review.

 

Three poems at Poet's Corner, Fieralingue.

 

Three poems at The Other Voices International Project.

 

Two translations at ARCH.

 

 

 

 

The Book of Hopes and Dreams is a charity poetry anthology featuring many award-winning and internationally respected writers, including  Simon Armitage, Margaret Atwood, Moniza Alvi, Alan Brownjohn, David Constantine, Cyril Dabydeen, Carol Anne Duffy, Ian Duhig, Ruth Fainlight, Vicki Feaver, Elaine Feinstein, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Ades Fishman, Magi Gibson, Alasdair Gray, Tony Harrison, John Heath-Stubbs, Michael Horovitz, Mimi Khalvati, Tom Leonard, Robert Mezey, Edwin Morgan, Daniele Pantano, Lawrence Sail, Penelope Shuttle, Jon Stallworthy, Anne Stevenson and many others.

 

Money raised from sales of this book will go to SPIRIT AID for their medical aid program in the outlying province of Baglan, Afghanistan.

 

You are helping to provide doctors, nurses, and medical supplies for the five hundred thousand people who live in isolated villages in the Baglan Province of North East Afghanistan, who until 2002 had gone nearly a quarter century without medical facilities of any kind, who until then had precious few reasons to believe in the power of hopes and dreams.

Order a copy from the publisher: BLUECHROME. (www.bluechrome.co.uk)

 

 

The Mailer Review

 

Contributors include Norman Mailer, Don DeLillo, Günter Grass, Christopher Hitchens, William Kennedy, Christopher Ricks, Charlie Rose, Philip Roth, Sean Penn, Gay Talese, Daniele Pantano, and many others.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poetic Voices Without Borders 2

 

This international anthology of over 150 poets who write in English, French, and Spanish includes work by Grace Cavalieri, Rita Dove, Denise Duhamel, Dana Gioia, Joy Harjo, Peter Klappert, Philip Levine, Daniele Pantano, Naomi Shihab Nye, Gloria Vando, among many other fine poets.

Get your copy here.

 

 

 

 

 

DANIELEPANTANO.CH

 

 

“I make a dish out of nothing” could be a poetic creed as well as a line from a Daniele Pantano poem, for he is an expert in molding the shapelessness of experience into a variety of crafted forms.  A romantic with a sharp intelligence, Pantano gives us poems where heart and mind move together as on a verbal bicycle built for two.

 

--Billy Collins

 

 

 

 

Pantano offers us a chance once again to see a poet live comparative literature the way Pound did–but without the frightening aspect of the extreme beard, the Roman broadcasts, or the open cage. His poetry and translations reveal that writing is different languages influencing each other at the most intimate and experienced level.

--James Reidel

 

 

 

 

It is a moral imperative to read and hear the work of Daniele Pantano, because it is one of the clearest ways by which we are able to bring the world inside. Pantano shows us a world-perspective that is increasingly necessary for us to remain alive.

--Nicholas Samaras