A Prayer

Emanuel di Pasquale

Guernica Editions, Fall 2017

50 pages

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771832083

ISBN10: 1771832088

English

$12.00 Canada, $99.99 US

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A Prayer connects the reader to nature, in a lyrical, life-affirmative manner. The poems are imagistic and open the reader to the divinity that surrounds her/him, both within and without.

Death is the thunderstorm in the night, lightning -- the snake, the fig root burning.

Emanuel di Pasquale creates poetry that is timeless and direct.

Dana Gioia

Emanuel di Pasquale writes superb poetry with imagery so crisp, it could be used in a textbook.

Ed Bennet, QUILL 7 PARCHMENT

Emanuel di Pasquale writes with reverence and wonder, like some Adam first laying eyes on beast and tree, bestowing names upon them.

X. J. Kenney

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