Poetry. "One tour-de-force after another, each with an impressive sureness of touch.... No poet writing today has a greater breadth of sensibility than Violi, or expresses it in a greater range of styles, or uses more of the devices that poetry has to offer. His poems inspire the feelings of excitement about life that is, still, the ultimate function of art"—Tony Towle.
Author City: New York City, NY USA
Born in New York City in 1944, Paul Violi grew up on Green Lawn, Long Island. After earning his BA in English literature at Boston University, Violi traveled to Nigeria to conduct surveys for the Peace Corps. The author of eleven volumes of poetry, Violi lived with his family in Putnam Valley, New York, and taught at New York University. He passed away in April 2011.
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