Dance Against the Wall: Poems (Signed First Edition)

John L. Stanizzi

ISBN 10: 1936482355 / ISBN 13: 9781936482351

Published by Antrim House, Simsbury, 2012

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First printing. A fine copy (but for light wear to lower-right corner of front cover). A clean, unmarked copy. This copy has been SIGNED, warmly inscribed, and dated by Stanizzi on the title page (as pictured). [Poetry-S]. Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-1931

Bibliographic Details

Title: Dance Against the Wall: Poems (Signed First ...

Publisher: Antrim House, Simsbury

Publication Date: 2012

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

John L. Stanizzi's fourth poetry collection, Dance Against the Wall, will stun readers into a fuller livelihood of the heart. Fearful pain and self-incrimination are here, but in the end it is love and a sense of the brotherhood among all living creatures, human and animal, that inform the book.

About the Author:

John L. Stanizzi has delighted readers and listeners throughout New England and (thanks in part to his presence on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac) beyond the Northeast. He is the author of Ecstasy Among Ghosts, now in its fourth printing, Sleepwalking, and Windows. His work has appeared in The New York Quarterly, Tar River Poetry, Rattle, Freshwater, Passages North, The Spoon River Quarterly, Poet Lore, The Connecticut River Review, and many other publications. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, in 1998 Stanizzi was named New England Poet of the Year by The New England Association of Teachers of English. He has read at many venues throughout Connecticut, including RJ Julia Booksellers and the Arts Café Mystic (with Gerald Stern). In 2011 he introduced Dick Allen, Connecticut's Poet Laureate, at the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, presenting a lecture and discussion session before the reading. In 2012 he presented a second Sunken Garden lecture, this time on Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer Prize winner and newly-named U.S. Poet Laureate. He has judged the Connecticut Poetry Out Loud competition and the 2011 Connecticut Book Award for Poetry. John L. Stanizzi teaches English at Manchester Community College and Bacon Academy, where he also directed the theater program for fifteen years. He lives with his wife, Carol, in Coventry, Connecticut.