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These essays are elegant and passionate tributes to the intersection of art and self.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50095504916753,"sku":"CIN0810150522VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0810150522.jpg?v=1751329487"},{"product_id":"chinese-apples-book-ws-di-piero-9780307265388","title":"Chinese Apples","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50348214518033,"sku":"CIN0307265382G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51918727414033,"sku":"CIN0307265382VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0307265382.jpg?v=1750813360"},{"product_id":"skirts-and-slacks-book-ws-di-piero-9780375709425","title":"Skirts and Slacks","description":"W. S. Di Piero, a fresh and powerful voice in American poetry, opens this collection about public and private worlds with poems that revisit the deaths of his parents. It is an important adult passage for him, and for them a last chance to leave a message- his father lying in bed, \"bemused and contemptuous \/ of the hell in which he lay\"; his mother soon to be laid out in the cheap gold flats \"that made her look young and men look twice.\" Di Piero writes poems of relationships, of ordinary beauty, of the deep, visceral memories that shape who we become. He reveals the art in the everyday-sometimes literally, as when he spies a Vermeer beauty in a girl with nose studs at the ATM, or van Gogh's self-portrait in a small-time bookie. Whether describing the uncertainty of sexual love (\". . . your footpads \/ wet after a bath \/ left prints like \/ our conversations \/ every which way\") or a panhandler in Port Authority (\"Show you to your bus \/ or an excellent candy bar?\"), he is delicate and direct at once, a no-nonsense guide to his surroundings who is moved by what he sees. His strong, elegantly simple statements of truths of feeling go beyond the pleasure of the words themselves and restore us to the thrill of honesty in our own lives.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50351018574097,"sku":"CIN0375709428G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0375709428.jpg?v=1750696276"},{"product_id":"city-dog-book-ws-di-piero-9780810125162","title":"City Dog","description":"When a self-proclaimed 'lazy scholar' embarks on a trip through his life's influences - as diverse as girl-group doo-wop, Yeats, and Van Gogh - readers are in for an illuminating ride. This collection of essays from cultural critic Di Piero veers from his early years as the son of immigrants in Philadelphia to his working life in art, film, music, and poetry. Along with a few choice essays reprinted from out-of-print collections, Di Piero's new work shows him to be insightful about himself and his work in spite of his protestations against the 'boosterism' of autobiography.Through the lens of his sharp artistic analysis, readers see his story - an immigrant story filled with the music and mystery of a multilingual family, the men of his neighborhood wearing so many hats as they worked - as the auspicious beginning for his life of observation and revelation. His prose sings along, tripping across slang, poetry, and painters with the same precision that allows him to nearly dance about architecture. Though Di Piero would claim that his life's path 'lurches and swerves,' his essays prove that he has wandered expansively and with purpose - a city dog trotting across continents, along pages, and through galleries.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50361871532305,"sku":"CIN0810125161VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0810125161.jpg?v=1751297056"},{"product_id":"nitro-nights-book-ws-di-piero-9781556593802","title":"Nitro Nights","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"With language that's as simple as it is musical, Di Piero sets dazzling moments amid plainsong.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Di Piero's poems throb with the intensity of urban life, buried anger, and old griefs that still ache.\"--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Di Piero hopes to evoke something of the true mystery of present and recalled experience, and his poems powerfully enact this desire.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eW.S. Di Piero marries a streetwise, working-class sensibility to an intellectual rigor and precise language in poems that stare down depression, failed love, and urban nightlife. In a fast-paced, half-cracked\/half-sane style reminiscent of bebop solos, Di Piero forges masterful poems that \"keep it close, loose, and sweaty,\" and restore life's intensity while showing where real hope might be found.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Only in Things\":\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSome days, who can stare at swathes of sky,\u003cbr\u003e leafage and bad-complected whale-gray streets,\u003cbr\u003e tailpipes and smokestacks orating sepia exhaust,\u003cbr\u003e or the smaller enthusiasms of pistil and mailbox key,\u003cbr\u003e and not weep for the world's darks on lights, lights on darks,\u003cbr\u003e how its half-tones stay unchanged in their changings,\u003cbr\u003e or how turning wheels and wind-trash and revolving doors\u003cbr\u003e weave us into wakefulness or dump us into distraction?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eW.S. Di Piero\u003c\/b\u003e was born in South Philadelphia and grew up in an Italian working-class neighborhood. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Raiziss\/de Palchi Book Prize for Italian translation, and a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund award. 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