This is excellently controlled craftsmanship, conveying deeply felt emotion.The grief of loss is sharply poignant and real, yet never maudlin or self-indulgent. The music of the lines is subtle and fine. The tension between the controlled craft and the poignancy of the theme makes the reader participate in the poems and feel with the poet, sharing the human despair and transcendent emotions that bring us through to survival. - Daniela Gioseffi 2006 Bordighera Prize contest judge In her exquisite first collection of poems, Emily Ferrara reveals the unexpected power of regeneration at the core...

Poetry. Tuscan Cooking. Recipes and poetry recipes from Tuscany; poems by Italian and American poets in both Italian in English, translated by Sabine Pascarelli. Featured poets: Karren LaLonde Alenier, Cecily Angleton, David Budbill, Andrea Hollander Budy, Anne Caston, Jenny D'Angelo, Tina Daub, Moira Egan, Jean Emerson, Emily Ferrara, Nan Fry, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Michael S. Glaser, Barbara Goldberg, Patricia Gray, Carole Wagner Greenwood, Rod Jellema, Diane Lockward, Calder Lowe, Judy Neri, Linda Pastan, Alexis Rotella, Carly Sachs, Vivian Shipley, Rose Solari, Christine Sostarich,...

In her exquisite first collection of poems, Ferrara reveals the unexpected power of regeneration at the core of a grieving mother's heart.

Poetry about love and liberty, sorrow and solitude written in the voice of Mary Wollstonecraft, an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. Written by poet Grace Cavalieri. The Italian edition "Cosa Farei Amore" was translated by Sabine Pascarelli. Cavalieri founded and still produces "The Poet and the Poem" for public radio, now from the Library of Congress.She holds the Allen Ginsberg Award for Poetry, Bordighera Poetry Award, Pen-Fiction Award, Paterson Excellence Award, CPB Silver Medal, plus others.