{"product_id":"nitro-nights-paperback","title":"Nitro Nights - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eW. S. Di Piero\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With language that's as simple as it is musical, Di Piero sets dazzling moments amid plainsong.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Di Piero's poems throb with the intensity of urban life, buried anger, and old griefs that still ache.\"--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Di Piero hopes to evoke something of the true mystery of present and recalled experience, and his poems powerfully enact this desire.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eW.S. Di Piero marries a streetwise, working-class sensibility to an intellectual rigor and precise language in poems that stare down depression, failed love, and urban nightlife. In a fast-paced, half-cracked\/half-sane style reminiscent of bebop solos, Di Piero forges masterful poems that \"keep it close, loose, and sweaty,\" and restore life's intensity while showing where real hope might be found.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Only in Things\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSome days, who can stare at swathes of sky, \u003cbr\u003eleafage and bad-complected whale-gray streets, \u003cbr\u003etailpipes and smokestacks orating sepia exhaust, \u003cbr\u003eor the smaller enthusiasms of pistil and mailbox key, \u003cbr\u003eand not weep for the world's darks on lights, lights on darks, \u003cbr\u003ehow its half-tones stay unchanged in their changings, \u003cbr\u003eor how turning wheels and wind-trash and revolving doors\u003cbr\u003eweave us into wakefulness or dump us into distraction?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eW.S. Di Piero\u003c\/b\u003e was born in South Philadelphia and grew up in an Italian working-class neighborhood. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Raiziss\/de Palchi Book Prize for Italian translation, and a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund award. He lives in San Francisco, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eW.S. Di Piero: Poet, essayist, and translator, W.S. Di Piero was born in South Philadelphia in 1945 and grew up in an Italian working class neighborhood. Di Piero's honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Ingram Merrill Foundation, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund award, and the first Raiziss\/de Palchi Book Prize for Italian translation from the Academy of American Poets. He lives in San Francisco.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 13, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50413684752621,"sku":"9781556593802","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-au\/products\/nitro-nights-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}