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The prosepoems (as I spell that) in Lamp of Whispers are selections from eight of my books of poetry-and-prose published 2015 through 2023, and including 40 new prosepoems (plus one older ""assay"" to start the first section.) I conceived them mainly as vertical pieces, many of them taller than they are wide. My intent is to bring any reader's eyes and ears back to the words more quickly than occurs in reading most prose. It is hoped that a reader will then be more attentive to sonic and textural properties within each piece, a sense of poetry so intimate with prose that I call it prosepoetry. The pieces are often nonlinear and work by associative and sometimes also symbolic interactions. There is no formal compositional tradition in writing prosepoetry. All prosepoems are an approach, not a poetic ""form"" (beyond their container shapes, mostly rectangles, on a page.) Or put it this way: form occurs as you are reading, as an approach is made to that mountain peak, poetry itself. The peak's in the path up. -David Giannini

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Already Long Ago is a fine work by a master poet who has dedicated his lifeto delving into the alchemy of poetry. -Stuart Bartow, author of Green Midnight and Invisible Dictionary Today's subject is Already Long Ago, Giannini's latest book, the poems of which he ""selected from a year's worth of work [including] lyric and narrative poems, songs, prose poems, hybrid haibun, and short and long-lined haiku.""-J.R. Solonche is the author of twenty-six books of poetry and co-author of another. Poetry, according to David Giannini, provides ""an infinite / number of doors."" Poem by poem in The Dawn of Nothing Important, we pass through many such doors, each opening into a room where a poem happens around us-a measured, intoxicating music and waves of colored lights. -Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate (2014-2019), author of Under Sleep's New Moon and The World As Is: New and Selected Poems On In a Moment We May Be Strangely Blended poems by David Giannini: From the first poem on, the reader is aware of David Giannini's love of language: its music, sound and rhythms, its humorous possibilities, its ability to express the self interacting with the life presented to one, and how experience is conveyed, whether in recalling childhood memories or interactions with others. For Giannini, language is the medium of meaning and of locating meaning in historical oddities, in relationships, and even in his backyard wood pile. This book carries a world of weight that a reader will bear with joy.-Gary Metras The Future Only Rattles When You Pick It Up is one of a kind. There is nothing like it, and no one's voice or thought is like his. Witty, wise and wonderful, some of these poems are downright hilarious. I won't say which, because it's more fun if you discover them for yourselves. Every once in a while, though, he looks out at us from the page and tells us a bold truth straight on, without humor but with infinite understanding of himself and his place in the world. -Irene J. Willis, Editor of the anthology Sigmund Freud in Poetry and Poetry Editor of International Psychoanalysis David Giannini's Faces Somewhere Wild spans his 45 years living and laboring in the Berkshire hill-towns of Massachusetts. Like the farmer whose face resembles what's fixed and moves around him, he is an astute observer of other faces. The man-with-the-broom who walks the streets making sweeping gestures reminds the poet, We are becoming motes or star dust. -Paul Pines David Giannini's ""Span of Thread,"" which is a polyphonic, serio-playful, deep-structured celebration of life-in-language and language-in-life. This book is further proof that Giannini is among those who are saving American poetry from itself. -Joseph Hutchison, Former Poet Laureate of Colorado

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David Giannini's most recently published collections of poetry include Faces Somewhere Wild (2017), The Future Only Rattles When You Pick It Up (2018), In A Moment We may Be Strangely Blended (2019), Mayhap (2019), The Dawn of Nothing Important (2023), Stones are the First to Rise (2024), each published by Dos Madres Press; POROUS BORDERS published by Spuyten Duyvil Press in 2017; SPAN OF THREAD (Cervena Barva Press, 2015) and AZ TWO (Adastra Press, ) a ""Featured Book"" in the 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival. His work appears in national and international literary magazines and anthologies, including New Hungers for Old: One-Hundred Years of Italian-American Poetry. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2015. New Feral Press published15 of his chapbooks between 2011-18 including TRAVELING CLUSTER, and INVERSE MIRROR, a collaboration with artist, Judith Koppel;. His work appears in national and international literary magazines and anthologies. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2015. Awards include: Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Awards; The Osa and Lee Mays Award For Poetry; an award for prosepoetry from the University of Florida; and a 2009 Finalist Award from the Naugatuck Review. He has been a gravedigger; beekeeper; taught at Williams College, The University of Massachusetts, and Berkshire Community College, as well as preschoolers and high school students, among others. Giannini was the Lead Rehabilitation Counselor for Compass Center, which he co-founded as the first rehabilitation clubhouse for severely and chronically mentally ill adults in the northwest corner of Connecticut. www.davidgiannini.com

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