My Life, Without Me - Softcover

Di Cicco, Pier

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1771261331 ISBN 13: 9781771261333

Publisher: Mansfield Press, 2016

Synopsis

In My Life Without Me, Pier Giorgio Di Cicco has created a kind of spiritual autobiography of the self abstracted from its environment. It is a lyrical and philosophic exploration of the world around us and a deep meditation on the cultural distinctions we subscribe to and which we try to preserve in the face of globalization. While My Life, Without Me explores the impersonal nature of the modern world, these poems take time to celebrate the sometimes heartbreaking idiosyncrasies of the human condition. With his characteristically strong personal voice, Di Cicco shows us that joy is the raison d'etre of the creative act, that if we just pause to listen, something as simple as a mournful trumpet solo can be cathartic and restore unity to a fragmented world.

About this title

About the Author:

Pier Giorgio Di Cicco is the author of twenty-two volumes of poetry and a book of manifestos on creative cities called Municipal Mind. He has lectured widely in the domain of creative economies throughout N. America and Europe and is the recipient of a Canadian Urban Institute Award for his thesis of civic spirit as the underpinning of prosperous modern cities. He is a Roman Catholic priest, a jazz trumpeter, and principal of the urban consultancy, "Municipal Mind" (municipalmind.com). He is presently the public space liaison between the stakeholders of the Toronto waterfront land and the City of Toronto. He was the Poet Laureate of the City of Toronto between 2004 and 2009.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mansfield Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1771261331
• ISBN 13: 9781771261333
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112