Living in Paradise: New and Selected Poems Tapa blanda - 2002

Toronto: Mansfield Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No dustjacket. 8vo. pp 168, ex-library

Toornto: Mansfield Press, 2002 Book. Near Fine. French Wraps. 1st Can Ed.. After fifteen years of publishing silence, Pier Giorgio Di Cicco is back. Living in Paradise contains his best poetry from the seventies and eighties along with his first new poetry since he left the literary world to join a monastery. As Dennis Lee says in his penetrating afterword, "It's a book we have sorely missed." Readers will find generous selections from major works like Flying Deeper into the Century and Virgin Science, as well as from The Tough Romance, of which Lee says, "There is nothing in our literature to match this sinewy lyric explosion, with its pyrotechnics, its philosophic edge, and its undertow of heartbreak." With Living in Paradise, readers can rediscover a major poet, once again writing at the height of his powers. Two inscriptions on ffep, one by the author, and one apparently by the previous owner , else fine.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Mansfield Press, 2001. Soft Cover. Very Good. TEXT UNMARKED