Sometimes I go to the field and the field is bare. What is it to have a history, a flock buried in the blindness of winter? Try crawling with two violins into the hallway of your father’s hearse.

If I remember my brother, it is as if a buck had knelt down in a room I was in. If I carry my father with me, it is the way a horse carries autumn in its mane. I go out to part the hair of a child I left behind, and he pushes his face into my cuffs, to smell the wind. “Now when I go out, the wind pulls me into the grave.

He is also the founder of the Poem for You Series, and his latest project is a 'living poem' for his son that he is live-tweeting on Twitter at. He is a Lecturer at Manhattanville College and a Professor of Creative Writing at Columbia University, and he serves on the Editorial Board of Alice James Books. His honors include the Cider Press Review Book Award, the Rattle Poetry Prize, and a nomination for the Poets' Prize, 'awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award year.'įasano's writing has appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, The Yale Review, The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, Boston Review, Measure, Tin House, The Adroit Journal, Verse Daily, PEN Poetry Series, American Literary Review, American Poetry Journal, and the Academy of American Poets' poem-a-day program, among other publications. His honors include the Cider Press Review Book Award, the Rattle Poetry Prize, and a nomination for the Poets' Prize, 'awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award year.' Fasano's writing has appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, The Yale Review, The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, Boston Review, Measure, Tin House, The Adroit Journal, Ver Joseph Fasano is the author of the novels The Swallows of Lunetto (Maudlin House, 2022) and The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing (Platypus Press, 2020), which was named one of the '20 Best Small Press Books of 2020.' His books of poetry include The Crossing (2018), Vincent (2015), Inheritance (2014), and Fugue for Other Hands (2013). Joseph Fasano is the author of the novels The Swallows of Lunetto (Maudlin House, 2022) and The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing (Platypus Press, 2020), which was named one of the '20 Best Small Press Books of 2020.' His books of poetry include The Crossing (2018), Vincent (2015), Inheritance (2014), and Fugue for Other Hands (2013).

The swallows of lunetto