Table of Contents for The Last Effort of Dreams: Essays on the Poetry of Pier Giorgia Di Ciccio, edited Francesco Loriggio
Introduction | Francesco Loriggio
Living Inside the Poem | Mary di Michele
We Sat on the Demoted Steps of Heaven: Some Memories of Pier Giorgio Di Cicco | Albert F. Moritz
Di Cicco’s Paradise | Dennis Lee
The Heart’s Resources: Gift Paths in Pier Giorgio Di Cicco’s Poetry | William Boelhower
Flying Deeper into the Century: Quick Takes | Francesco Loriggio
Virgin Science: The Hunt for Holistic Paradigms: An Interview with Pier Giorgio Di Cicco | Robert Billings
Reading Virgin Science | William Anselmi
Di Cicco’s Elusive Virgin: Hunting the Universal Feminine | Vera F. Golini
Philosophy and Music in the Art of a Poet | Yaroslav Senyshyn
Basic Stuff: Religion and Modernity in Di Cicco’s Later Work | Francesco Loriggio
Works By and About Di Cicco: A Bibliography | Vera F. Golini
List of Contributors
Index
List of Contributors
William Anselmi teaches in the department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. His latest book, coauthored with Kostas Gouliamos, is Happy Slaves: A Duologue on Multicultural Deficit (2005).
Robert Billings published several volumes of poetry, among which The Elizabeth Trinities, A Heart of Names, and The Revels. In the mid-1980s he was one of the editors of Poetry Canada Review. He died in 1986.
William Boelhower is Robert Thomas and Rita Wetta Adams Professor of Atlantic and Ethnic Studies at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. He is also an editor of the Routledge journal Atlantic Studies and the Routledge series on Atlantic Studies. He has translated several books, including Selections from Cultural Writings of Antonio Gramsci (1992), Lucien Goldmann’s Method in the Sociology of Literature (1980), and the immigrant autobiography of Carmine Iannace, The Discovery of America (2000). His most recent works include Autobiographical Transactions in Modernist America (1992) and The Future of American Modernism (1990). He is also the co-editor of Adjusting Sites: New Essays in Italian American Studies (1999); Multiculturalism and the American Self (2000); Public Space, Private Lives: Race, Class, Gender, and Citizenship in New York 1890–1929 ( 2004) and Working Sites: Text, Territory and Cultural Capital (2004).
Mary di Michele, poet, novelist, essayist, is a full professor teaching at Concordia University in Montreal. She is the author of eight books of poetry, including a “selected poems,” Stranger in You (Oxford University Press) and two novels. Her latest book, Tenor of Love, a novel, was published by Viking Canada and has circulated internationally.
Vera F. Golini is a professor of Italian Studies at St. Jerome’s University (federated with the University of Waterloo). She has published on Italian and Italian Canadian literature in various scholarly journals in Canada and abroad, as well as in anthologies. Recently she co-edited Theatre and the Visual Arts, and completed and published the first English translation of Dacia Maraini’s My Husband (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004). Her afterword to Italian Canadian Voices: A Literary Anthology 1946–2004 appeared in 2005 and her study of Mary di Michele is forthcoming. She is currently serving as past president of the Canadian Society for Italian Studies and is the recipient of the 2004 Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Waterloo.
Dennis Lee lives in Toronto, where he was the city’s first Poet Laureate—a post currently filled by Pier Giorgio Di Cicco. Lee’s most recent collections are Un and SoCool. He edited Living in Paradise, Di Cicco’s new and selected poems, where the essay included in this anthology appeared as an afterword.
Francesco Loriggio teaches Italian and Comparative Literature at Carleton University, Ottawa. He has published extensively on literary theory, modern Italian literature, and Italian Canadian literature. He is the translator of Achille Campanile’s The Inventor of the Horse and Other Short Plays and the editor of Social Pluralism and Literary History.
Albert F. Moritz’s poetry has won many international honours, including the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Award in Literature of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He is co-author, with Theresa Moritz, of biographies of Stephen Leacock and Emma Goldman, and of the Oxford Literary Guide to Canada.
Yaroslav Senyshyn is professor of Philosophy of Music and Aesthetics at Simon Fraser University. As a pianist he has performed in major concert halls throughout the world. The Washington Post referred to him as a pianist of “enormous power” and “sophisticated finger work.” As well he has published extensively in the Philosophy of Music Education Review, Interchange, The Journal of Educational Thought, Educational Leadership, The Canadian Journal of Education, and other venues.