Poetry. Ellis Island is a book of changes. This text exists in two very different modes—one that is stable and one that is endlessly changing. Like Ellis Island, it belongs at the same time to the City and the Sea._x000D_
_x000D_
Belonging to the City, Ellis Island is a poem of 624 sonnets, in a determined and unchangeable order._x000D_
_x000D_
“In the half-mad tradition of the Italian Futurists (Marinetti et al.), Ted Berrigan, and the brilliant scribblers of Oulipo, Viscusi has constructed a wonderful machine for generating sonnets, an effort that reproduces the equally demented project of Ellis Island itself.”—Mac Wellman
Ellis Island By Robert Viscusi ( Poetry)
$28.00
Only 1 left in stock
Be the first to review “Ellis Island By Robert Viscusi ( Poetry)” Cancel reply
Related products
PBA Italian American Culture/Studies
Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
PBA Italian American Culture/Studies
Migrating Words: Italian Writers in the United States By Luigi Fontanella
PBA Italian American Culture/Studies
Not for Nothing: Glimpses into a Jersey Girlhood By Kathy Curto
PBA Italian American Culture/Studies
From Wiseguys to Wise Men: The Gangster and Italian American Masculinities
PBA Italian American Culture/Studies
PBA Italian American Culture/Studies
Leaving Little Italy: Essaying Italian American Culture (Suny Series in Italian/American Culture)
PBA Italian American Culture/Studies
The Family Tree Italian Genealogy Guide: How to Trace Your Family Tree in Italy
PBA Italian American Culture/Studies
Re-reading Rimanelli in America: Six Decades In the United States
PBA Italian American Culture/Studies
Mount Allegro: A Memoir of Italian American Life By Jerre Mangione
PBA Italian American Culture/Studies
PBA Italian American Culture/Studies
Con Amore. A Daughter-In-Law’s Story Of Growing Up Italian-American In Bushwick By Bea Tusiani
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.