{"title":"W. S.  Di Piero","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"burning-money-1","title":"Burning Money","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo read W. S. Di Piero's \u003ci\u003eBurning Money\u003c\/i\u003e is to see your world dipped in a saline solution and given back to you, glimmering with renewed detail: the familiar becomes strange, the strange familiar, and the English language so fine-edged it almost stings. John Ashbery once called Di Piero's poems \"calm, grave, firm, sensuous and as deeply refreshing as a cup of well water.\" Philip Levine wrote that \"he has caught our American voices in all their glory and banality, our diction and our inflections, even when we're talking to ourselves.\" For all their lyrical compression, the poems in \u003ci\u003eBurning Money\u003c\/i\u003e reveal tremendous range. This is the work of a maestro.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unbound Edition Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50610014814525,"sku":"9798991957533","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/9798991957533ita_844d5b9a-be62-4c00-9b9a-56f2acdeb327.jpg?v=1754944482"},{"product_id":"inside-the-box-selected-prose-1","title":"Inside the Box: Selected Prose","description":"\u003cp\u003eSelected from more than 30 years of W. S. Di Piero's celebrated work, the prose collected in \u003ci\u003eInside the Box\u003c\/i\u003e invites readers on a captivating journey through literature, art, and the landscape of memory. Blending intimate reflections on his working-class Italian American upbringing in South Philadelphia with incisive analysis of towering figures like Dante, Van Gogh, Coleridge, and Giacometti, Di Piero illuminates the complex ways in which life and art intertwine — and how they rescue us from despair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith lyrical, penetrating writing that moves seamlessly between the personal and the universal, Di Piero confronts intricate questions of identity, creativity, desire, and purpose. Whether he's recalling his childhood encounters with neighborhood characters, examining the revolutionary power of photography, or wrestling with the nature of memory itself, his writing pulses with intellectual rigor and emotional honesty. These essays reveal an artist's mind at work: restless, probing, generous in its attention to both high culture and street-corner wisdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom meditations on selling Bibles door-to-door as a teenager to profound encounters with masterpieces in European museums, from the gritty realities of manual labor to the transcendent possibilities of poetry, Di Piero maps the territory where experience becomes art. \u003ci\u003eInside the Box\u003c\/i\u003e presents the record of a life lived in passionate search of meaning — and stands as testimony to literature's power to transform the raw materials of existence into lasting revelation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unbound Edition Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50616415453501,"sku":"9798991957540","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/9798991957540ita_ff039365-a490-471a-ad64-6c448910dcb5.jpg?v=1755104039"}],"url":"https:\/\/itascabooks.com\/collections\/w-s-di-piero.oembed","provider":"Itasca Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}