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Author: Robert Viscusi

Robert Viscusi was born on April 4, 1941, at St. Catherine's Hospital in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to Joseph Viscusi, a mechanic, and Vera Di Rocco, a dressmaker. Viscusi's grandparents were all immigrants from Italy who passed through Ellis Island. They never forgot Italy, though they never returned there.

An Oration upon the Most Recent Death of Christopher Columbus: October 13-14, 1992
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An Oration upon the Most Recent Death of Christopher Columbus: October 13-14, 1992

Bordighera Press

By Robert Viscusi

Poetry. "Bob Viscusi's Columbus rhapsody is vivid vernacular voluble and full of nervous verve."—Allen Ginsberg

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Ellis Island
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Ellis Island

Bordighera Press

By Robert Viscusi

Poetry. ELLIS ISLAND is a book of changes. This text exists in two very different modes—one that is stable and one that is endlessly changing. Like Ellis Island, it belongs at the same time to the City and the Sea.Belonging to the City, ELLIS ISLAND...

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