Of Clouds and Mists

Pascal Dâ Angelo

Published by Sublunary Editions, 2024

About this Item

The Italian American poet Pascal Dâ Angelo (Jan. 19, 1894â Mar. 13, 1932) was born and came of age in the village of Introdaqua, eighty miles east of Rome in the Abruzi region of cental Italy. In April 1910 Dâ Angelo emigrated with his father to the United States. He spent the next eight years working in rail yards and in road-building crews in the northeast and beyond. In 1919 he settled in New York City and began writing poetry while living in conditions of stark poverty. Between 1922 and 1925, Dâ Angelo published about two dozen poems in magazines and newspapers. This is the first volume to make available the entirety of Dâ Angeloâ s poetry, including four poems published posthumously in The Brooklyn Eagle in 1932.Dennis Barone is a Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford, Connecticut. He has edited a number of works including the poetry anthologies: New Hungers for Old: One-Hundred Years of Italian-American Poetry (Star Cloud Press) and Garnet Poems: An Anthology of Connecticut Poetry Since 1776 (Wesleyan University Press). A graduate of Bard College, he received his Ph.D. in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1992 he held the Thomas Jefferson Chair, a distinguished Fulbright lecturing award, in the Netherlands, and in 1997 he received the America Award for fiction.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Of Clouds and Mists
• Publisher: Sublunary Editions
• Publication Date: 2024
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New