Burning Money | W.S. Di Piero | Poetry
Forthcoming in August 2025: For all its lyrical compression, Burning Money reveals tremendous range. The title poem and ‘Nat Turner’s Dream,’ for example, have genuine political power, minus any rhetorical tub-thumping. Then there’s the erotic charge of ‘Mr. Sandman’ and ‘The Hairbrush,’ as well as the celebration of artwork in ‘Edward Hopper (Yellow and Red)’ and ‘Practice Room.’ Di Piero is simply the maestro.”
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Burning Money, W.S. Di Piero
$25.00
ISBN: 9798991957533
Fine Softcover; 80+ pages; 5.25”x7.5”
Publication Date: August 26, 2025
Summary
For all its lyrical compression, Burning Money reveals tremendous range. The title poem and ‘Nat Turner’s Dream,’ for example, have genuine political power, minus any rhetorical tub-thumping. Then there’s the erotic charge of ‘Mr. Sandman’ and ‘The Hairbrush,’ as well as the celebration of artwork in ‘Edward Hopper (Yellow and Red)’ and ‘Practice Room.’ Di Piero is simply the maestro.”
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.
John Ashbery once called Di Piero’s poems “calm, grave, firm, sensuous and as deeply refreshing as a cup of well water.” Philip Levine wrote that “he has caught our American voices in all their glory and banality, our diction and our inflections, even when we’re talking to ourselves.”
Author
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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