A collection of poetry depicting the author's long and sometimes agonizing accommodation to the Old World. The selections describe the dislocation and alienation, the isolation and introspection compelled by life in a foreign medium. They also portray the extravagant beauty of Umbria.
A collection of poetry depicting the author's long and sometimes agonizing accommodation to the Old World. The selections describe the dislocation and...
The Threshold of the New, a book twenty-five years in the making, describes Henry Sloss's "exile" to Italy in the early 1970s and his reluctant but increasingly passionate commitment to the terms of life there. The story of an unwilling expatriate, Sloss has lost his job and leaves the United States in the last months of the Vietnam War with his wife and child to live abroad. That he and his family might end up living in Italy only dawns on them with time, as they come to realize their growing attachment to the world they find there and their deteriorating relations with the world they left...
The Threshold of the New, a book twenty-five years in the making, describes Henry Sloss's "exile" to Italy in the early 1970s and his reluctant but in...
