The Appassionata Poems

Sister Mary Appassionata has been talking herself into David Citino's poetry collections for many years. Charming when she wants to be, pushy by nature and by vocation, determined to say what she has to say, Sister Mary has evolved into a recognized literary personality, very popular with readers of Citino's poetry. She has now persuaded both poet and press that she is ready for her own breakthrough book, arguing that everything she has said in the past is still true and that she also has important new observations to make. The Book of Appassionata presents Sister Mary's new poems and brings together in one volume all her poems from Citino's previous collections.

Jose Garcia Villa's first book of poems, HAVE COME, AM HERE, brought him immediate recognition as one of the finest & purest poets writing today. His work has been highly praised by: E.E. CUMMINGS: "and I am alive to see a man against the sky---" BABETTE DEUTSCH: "As singular as the work of Emily Dickinson or Hopkins." EDITH SITWELL: "The best of his poems are among the most beautiful written in our time." MARK VAN DOREN: "One of the purest & most natural gifts discoverable anywhere in contemporary poetry." RICHARD EBERHART: "A pure, startling & resounding poetry, informed with so much legerity & fire..." MARIANNE MOORE: "He is not a destroyer, his work is reverent...Final wisdom encountered in poem after poem." The present volume gathers together the best of his love poetry, & it covers practically all the aspects & phases of love. Also available from BRAVO EDITIONS, Edited by Villa: BRAVO, THE POET'S MAGAZINE, Paper: $5.00, 44p., ISSN 0275-6080. A Multicultural/International, annual poetry journal - selected by PUSHCART PRIZE as one of the outstanding small presses in America. INTRODUCING MR. VANDERBORG, Poems by Arthur Vanderborg, Paper: $7.00, 80p., "Incredible, impossible, delicious, original."--JGV. Forthcoming from BRAVO EDITIONS: PARLEMENT OF GIRAFFES by Jose Garcia Villa, Paper: $20.00, 150p., Hard Cover: $30.00. POEMS FOR THE WORLD'S CHILDREN, Selected by John Edwin Cowen. Translated into Tagalog & illustrated by Hilario S. Francia. "Lyrical, enchanting poems for children & adults of all ages in English & Tagalog!"--Nick Joaquin. Order from John Cowen, 1081 Trafalgar St., Teaneck, NJ 07666-1929; 201-836-5922.

Is it possible that a body of Christian poetry is now being produced whose literary merit is equal to its religious conviction? David Impastato's splendid anthology, Upholding Mystery, answers that question with a resounding and surprising "yes".".

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