W.S. Di Piero

Brief Bio

W. S. DI PIERO, "one of our most American poets" according to Alison Hawthorne Deming, is the author of six volumes of poetry. Of The Restorers (1992), Dave Smith writes, "These are poems of our time and place, redolent with crafty expression, passionate with concern for our health. Poetry has always been among the great restorers of our spirit, and here, again, it is so."

W.S. Di Piero is the author of

Shadows Burning (Northwestern University Press, 1995)

as well as five other books of poetry, the most recent of which are:

The Restorers (University of Chicago Press, 1992)

and

The Dog Star (University of Massachusetts Press, 1990).

His other poetry titles are

Early Light (1985),

The Only Dangerous Thing (1984), and The First Hour (1982).

He has published three collections of essays on literature, art and personal experience, Shooting the Works (1996), Out of Eden (1991) and

Memory and Enthusiasm: Essays, 1975-1985 (Princeton Univ., 1989)

as well as works of translation, including Euripides' Ion (1996) and The Ellipse: Selected Poems of Leonardo Sinisgalli (Princeton, 1983).

In past years he has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Ingram-Merrill Award. A frequent contributor to Threepenny Quarterly and Triquarterly, W. S. Di Piero teaches at Stanford University and lives in San Francisco.

An example of his work is The Reading.

W.S. Di Piero will be reading with August Kleinzahler on November 7, at 7:30 pm in Bartos Theatre in the Wiesner Building, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge. For further information call 253-9469.

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