Literary Nonfiction. Art. WHEN CAN I SEE YOU AGAIN is a collection of the poet and essayist's recent short art writings on subjects ranging from Morandi to Rembrandt to Pre-Columbian marine animal amulets. Di Piero has great zest for looking and a prose style equal to what he sees.

Author City: SAN FRANCISCO, CA USA

W. S. Di Piero is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently NITRO NIGHTS (Copper Canyon Press, 2011) and Chinese Apples: New and Selected Poems (Knopf, 2007). He's also an essayist on art, literature, popular culture, and personal experience. His autobiographical essays have appeared twice in Best American Essays, and his five essay collections include WHEN CAN I SEE YOU AGAIN: NEW ART WRITINGS (Pressed Wafer, 2010) and City Dog (Northwestern University Press, 2009). His books also include translations from Italian and Greek. Di Piero has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Award.