Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
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Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (July 5, 1949 - December 22, 2019) was an Italian-Canadian poet.[1] In 2005, he became the second Poet Laureate of Toronto.
Born in
His poems, consisting of deep images in stanzas of free verse - with lines consisting of irregular numbers of syllables and (hypothetical) feet - often referred to di Cicco's immigrant and Italian-family experiences. In books like Flying Deeper Into the Century (1982) and The Tough Romance (1979) he communicated a modern, sensitive awareness of the confusing welter of 20th-century life. Di Cicco's unmetrical but imagistic lines flowed on, often with cumulative power, to release their tension at the end of their stanzas. His edited a collection of Italian Canadian poetry entitled Roman Candles (1978) that inaugurated "the phenomenon of Italian Canadia writing."[2]
Di Cicco gradually felt called to a
In 2004, he was chosen Poet Laureate of Toronto; he published a poem weekly in
Selected bibliography
- We are the Light Turning - 1976
- Dancing in the House of Cards - 1977
- The Sad Facts - 1977
- The Circular Dark - 1977
- A Burning Patience - 1978
- Roman Candles - 1978 (editor)
- The Tough Romance - 1979
- Flying Deeper Into the Century"' - 1982
- Dark to Light - 1983
- Women We Never See Again - 1984
- Post-sixties Nocturne - 1985
- Virgin Sciences - 1986
- The Tough Romances - 1990
- Living in Paradise - 2001
- The Honeymoon Wilderness - 2002
- The Dark Time of Angels - 2003
- Dead Men of the Fifties - 2004
- The Visible Worlds - 2006
- Municipal Minds: Manifestos for the Creative Cities - 2007
- Early Voices: Flying Deeper into the Century & Virgin Science - 2009
- Names of Blessings - 2009
References
- ^ Jacob Scheier, "In memoriam: Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, 1949-2019". Now, January 1, 2020.
- ^ a b Pivato, Joseph (December 15, 2013). "Di Cicco, Pier Giorgio". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
- ISBN 9781771261722. Retrieved June 12, 2018.