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A love letter to the lives, loves, losses, and other mysteries that lay at the heart of our history. Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, grandchild of Italian immigrants, granddaughter of coal miners, and author of twelve published poetry collections and thousands of poems, offers her most personal collection to date. These are poems that speak to people, for all of us come from somewhere--some world we have necessarily left behind but that still lives within us and makes us who we are. This book is for lovers of stories, told through artful poems and vivid prose, as it invites us all to reflect, laugh, smile, shed a tear, re-live, and perhaps even make sense of our own childhood experiences. Dip into it while sitting by the fire or gathered with friends and family in a shared celebration of our personal histories and the bonds that connect us to one another. ""The childhood belonging to each of us is unique, as is each human being--yet there are some things that remain constant. We all have a mother and father, and, if we are lucky, sisters and brothers. We all have a place that we come from that has helped shape us into who we are. We all have memories that stay with us, bring us joy, and haunt us, and we all face the daily decision of what to do with those memories--to preserve them or to let them fade. My vocation, as a poet, compels me to turn them into story and song. These poems tell my stories, and I also hope they, in some way, tell yours."" -Angela Alaimo O'Donnell

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""A poem is an act of noticing, and in Angela Alaimo O'Donnell's The View from Childhood we are brought into the poet's observational skill: childhood trips; highlights; the left hand of a father; the matriarchs of an Italian American family. Everything is here: love, longing, lament, as well as violence, disappointment and fortitude. Attentive always to form and the terse line, Alaimo O'Donnell's syntax and enjambments offer free associations with a world that is both gone and still here. A beautiful book -- a gift to self and others."" --Padraig O'Tuama, editor of POETRY UNBOUND, author of KITCHEN HYMNS

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Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, Ph.D., is a writer, poet, and professor. She teaches English, Creative Writing, and courses in Catholic Studies at Fordham University in New York City and serves as Associate Director of Fordham's Curran Center for American Catholic Studies. She is also founder and co-editor of the Curran Center's book series, ""Studies in the Catholic Imagination: The Flannery O'Connor Trust Series,"" published by Fordham University Press.

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