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The year 2013 has been a surprising one, with two new books being published simultaneously in April: The Other Side of the Tiber from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, is non-fiction. My first novel, Toscanelli's Ray is in the capable hands of Cadmus Editions, San Francisco.

Both were born from the energies and collisions of living in two cultures, Italy and America, for more than forty years.

Mother Tongue, a memoir, published by FSG has just been made into an eBook. And a book of essays translated into Italian, L'Oceano e' dentro di noi, Moretti e Vitali can now be obtained on the web.

Something new, an acceleration, is happening to me as a writer.



BOOKS AVAILABLE FROM:


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Amazon
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Here is a poem of mine that first appeared in London Magazine

Once I Never Thought of Knowing

Once I never thought of knowing
writers, people who filled
pages with adventures, but more

interesting inner life
hearing songs inside the lilacs
penning phrases like ‘ you must change your life’

now in most astounding freedom
I have shelves of books signed
not in shopping center malls

but by people whose ways I follow
yet it was not knowing writers
that changed me

nor knowing even that I could write
but knowing there were eternal
ways words bring water to a desert