The Swallows of Lunetto

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http://ciderpressreview.com/contributors/joseph-fasano-ba-2011/ Cider Press Review 2011 Book Award Announcement

Cawley's debut chapbook "depression is a thunderstorm and i am a scared dog" is a journey of resiliency, perseverance and subjectivity to one's fallacies. Through lyricism and descriptiveness, Cawley battles her PTSD through her interactions with others, and questions them as well her observation of the situation. DUNCAN BIRMINGHAM is a writer and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. He’s been a writer and producer on numerous tv shows including Maron (starring Marc Maron) and Blunt Talk. Short films he’s written and directed have premiered at film festivals including Sundance and AFI. His stories have appeared in literary magazines including Mystery Tribune, Maudlin House, nerve, Juked, 7x7, Brooklyn Vol 1 and Joyland. In 2011, Fasano's first book, Fugue for Other Hands, won the Cider Press Review Book Award. [8] It was nominated for the Kate Tufts Poetry Award and the Poets' Prize, "awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award." His second collection of poems, Inheritance, was released in May 2014. In 2015, Fasano published Vincent, a book-length poem based very loosely on the 2008 killing of Tim McLean by Vince Li on a Greyhound Bus near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, on the Trans Canada Highway. [9] His fourth collection of poems, The Crossing, was released in 2018. Fasano's poems have appeared in the Yale Review, the Southern Review, FIELD, Tin House, Boston Review, Measure, Passages North, the American Literary Review, and other publications. [7]The trauma of war is intergenerational. The characters know that to be alive is to be broken, that there is no safety in the world. That life means living the questions, the questions that arise from our own selves. Learning about one’s ancestors is a two-edged sword. I have personally discovered horror stories: a family massacred by Native Americans; forced conscription; generations of refugees pushing across continents, those persecuted for their faith traveling across an ocean; a runaway teenager fleeing a dictatorial father. And, most appalling of all, a beloved grandfather who spent four months in prison for attempted “ravishment” of a teenage girl. DALTON DAY is the author of two books, most recently Exit, Pursued (Plays Inverse). His poems have been featured in The Offing, Matador Review, Shabby Doll House, and The Art Institute of Chicago. He is the recipient of a James A. Michener poetry fellowship. He lives in Atlanta.

Joseph Fasano’s The Swallows Of Lunetto is a novel about a young couple escaping from Italian fascism at the end of the Second World War.

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A young woman in the village recalled the boy and connects with the man. She bears her own invisible scars. Her charcoal drawings reflect what she sees, the sea and her town and her sisters, and she studies them hoping to understand what she sees. To understand her life. Seyed Morteza Hamidzadeh transports the reader to another part of the world in his poetry book, ‘Exile Me.’ ….We are given an extremely personal, honest, and strong collection of poems that present vignettes of struggle, brutality, and war. Hamidzadeh not only gives us that strong, raw voice we desire, but an eloquent one, too…” – Zach Benard, author of 'The Lost Islander.' Blake Wallin is a writer from Atlanta specializing in poetry, fiction, and playwriting. A recent graduate of George Mason University’s MFA program in poetry, he attended the 2018 Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive as well as the 2018 Virginia Quarterly Review’s Summer Workshop in Poetry. He is the author of two previous books, No Sign on the Island (Bottlecap Productions) and Occipital Love (Ghost City Press). So I set out to make something else. And I did. There were months of research, plotting, scribbling, pulling the car to the side of the road on the way to the grocery to jot down a sentence, a line, an idea. And yet, once again, something was missing. I had a completed manuscript of what might otherwise have been a third novel, but I knew, in the end, I had nothing. something like that is perhaps beyond words. It’s a monstrous thing. And such things are only given a shape later. In the story we tell. from the Swallows of Lunetto by Joseph Fasano