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A poet and essayist attempt to find their bearings in a civilization lost at sea.

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Dead Reckoning pilots readers through the purgatory of immigration, a painful sea voyage that with enough courage and hard work can lead through the narrow channel facing paradise: spiritual and material success. Charting the currents between the Old and New Worlds, Andrei Guruianu and Anthony Di Renzo write with the ferocious genius of Pope and Swift and the compassionate heart of Saint Nicholas, patron of sailors and guardian of ports. - Emanuel di Pasquale, author of The Ocean's Will In the space of the passage from immigrant to citizen in a new home, things fall apart to an apparent nothingness. Guruianu and Di Renzo ask us to consider a brave creativity as an answer for the space where systems fall apart, so that it can be a place where things grow in a reverence for the need to live, to love, to have community, and to be truly free. - Afaa M. Weaver, author of City of Eternal Spring A lovely, seductive, original book. - Thomas G. Pavel, author of The Lives of the Novel: A History

Dead Reckoning pilots readers through the purgatory of immigration, a painful sea voyage that with enough courage and hard work can lead through the narrow channel facing paradise: spiritual and material success. Charting the currents between the Old and New Worlds, Andrei Guruianu and Anthony Di Renzo write with the ferocious genius of Pope and Swift and the compassionate heart of Saint Nicholas, patron of sailors and guardian of ports. - Emanuel di Pasquale, author of The Ocean's Will In the space of the passage from immigrant to citizen in a new home, things fall apart to an apparent nothingness. Languages are abandoned or reshaped, forgotten or vandalized. Writers living between worlds see into new inconsistencies. This is a book that will take you to the cutting board to search for the words and thoughts we have perhaps thrown away. Answers lie inside us, if we can learn to make beauty from the freedom of a new hope in the way art can sustain us in the complexities that surround us and grow each day with new challenges. Guruianu and Di Renzo ask us to consider a brave creativity as an answer for the space where systems fall apart, so that it can be a place where things grow in a reverence for the need to live, to love, to have community, and to be truly free. - Afaa M. Weaver, author of City of Eternal Spring A lovely, seductive, original book. - Thomas G. Pavel, author of The Lives of the Novel: A History

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Andrei Guruianu teaches in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. His previous books include the poetry collections Made in the Image of Stones and Portrait without a Mouth. Anthony Di Renzo is Associate Professor of Writing at Ithaca College and the author of many books, including Bitter Greens: Essays on Food, Politics, and Ethnicity from the Imperial Kitchen, also published by SUNY Press.

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