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W. S. Di Piero
W. S. Di Piero is the author of numerous volumes of poetry, essays, art criticism, and translation. He has been the recipient of the Ruth Lilly prize for lifetime achievement from the Poetry Foundation, the Berlin Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a Lila-Wallace Reader’s Digest award. He lives in San Francisco.
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Previous Praise for the poetry of W. S. Di Piero
Di Piero gives off cascades of words that run like a warm engine, with all parts working together. There might be a mysterious noise or two along the way but don't worry, you'll be back on the road.
Having mastered the art of weaving gold thread from straw, W. S. Di Piero’s [work] exults in such commonplace materials as ‘the argument of an afternoon’ or ‘one street’s undistinguished gift.’ The poetry that results is calm, grave, firm, sensuous and as deeply refreshing as a cup of well water.
W. S. Di Piero's poems tear the outer layer of skin off the world. Radiant in hurt and matter-of-factness, the world — what's given- jolts into revelation in poems at once homely and cosmic.
Previous Praise for the prose of W. S. Di Piero
W. S. Di Piero is one of the best and most under-recognized writers of our time. His prose style is powerfully attractive and unique.
Mallarme said the poet’s job is to purify the language of the tribe. W. S. Di Piero does just that, mainly by aligning his rich, working-class memories with a larger world of art and politics.
W. S. Di Piero is probably the most consistently compelling and idiosyncratic prose writer among contemporary American poets.
