Poetry. "Emanuel di Pasquale writes with reverence and wonder, like some Adam first laying eyes on beast and tree, bestowing names upon them...I find di Pasquale an astonishing and delightful poet, a visionary miraculously set down in New Jersey, and a true original" -- X.J. Kennedy.

Emanuel di Pasquale's poems should be read by every American . . . He excels at the short lyric, writes directly, and feels deeply . . . The reader is enriched by both his Sicilian and his American realizations in his life-enhancing lines. - Richard Eberhart di Pasquale] writes out of strong experience, and by insisting on accuracy, he comes out both simple and surprising. He's never decorative: there is always something human happening, and his words are close to it. - Richard Wilbur

Poetry. Translated from the Italian by Emanuel di Pasquale. "A discreet connoisseur of Italian poetry of this century will quickly see in Ruffilli's verses the continuity of a noble tradition, made of refined poverty, of contracted music, up to the extreme limit of inaudibility, which reaches its high point in the poetry of Giorgio Caproni; and he will think, then, of certain tangents, even thematic, between the present story in Camera oscura and the unforgettable story of Annina in Seme del piangere. But just as easy, and certainly owed, will be to watch how Ruffilli works on his...

Poetry. "HARVEST is a splendid collection, fresh and various" X. J. Kennedy. " Di Pasquale] writes out of strong experience, and by insisting on accuracy, he comes out both simple and surprising. He's never decorative: there is always something human happening, and his words are close to it" Richard Wilbur."

Emanuel di Pasquale's Self-portrait offers a collection of small but powerful poems that present a world where the poet, the poem and thus the reader wrestle with the human connection with nature-our forming mother. These poems explore inner passions and how such passions help us understand the nature of nature, the nature of things, and ultimately the nature of ourselves.

Love is the Mouth
Love is the mouth
that tears rind,
that chews pulp
and sucks juices.
Love is the mouth
that swallows seeds.
And love is the mouth
that bitches
at orange bits
stuck in its teeth.

From the Introduction

There is something elemental about the poetry of Emanuel di Pasquale, an immediacy that comes from a direct and visceral relation to whatever he is writing about-whether nature or human interaction. It is the kind of directness that di Pasquale admires in Whitman and Dickinson-evidence that he, like them, has more than an...

As the title "Palisades, Parkways & Pinelands" implies, the book at hand has grown from New Jersey roots. More specifically, it is an outgrowth of the Pier Village Poetry Festival, held in view of the Atlantic in Long Branch, New Jersey, on the Fourth of July 2015. For that event, organizer and Long Branch Poet Laureate Emanuel di Pasquale called together some twenty poets from the far-flung New Jersey poetry tribe. A sampling of their work, along with that of others who could only be present in spirit that day, is included in the present volume. As its genesis and development suggest,...

Professor and Poet Laureate Emanuel di Pasquale presents us with a marvelous new volume of his essays and poems on this question, of Natural Love, and the Unnatural Attacks Against It. He draws upon Melville's Billy Budd, from Blake's poems about youthful virgins, from the struggles of Hawthorne's Hester, with a beautiful child from a man not her husband, and from Lawrence's Lady Chatterley, trapped in a marriage to a cruel and impotent man. di Pasquale also draws upon the clinical understandings of the late Wilhelm Reich, a primary advocate and scientific investigator of natural love, to...

Emanuel di Pasquale refers to In Truth as -his little book of poems.- The book may be small, but the poems are far from little. Going beyond connecting the reader to nature in a lyrical and imagistic manner, these poems bathe the reader in their simple silence and open a rift in the fabric of that nature exposing the reader to a glimpse of an eternity within themselves.