Traveling

In his 80th year, the poet is obsessed with the notion of location and its effect on his writing. The book's title, 'Traveling', underscores a fascination with the notion of here/there, Pasadena/Bagnone, exterior/interior, all of which upheld by a growing determination to discover the silence inhabiting language. Written between 2022-2025, Traveling celebrates the necessary illusions and forgiveness that characterize an almost 60-year career. Or as one of Vangelisti's more recent poems reminds us:The rest is anything but silence.Now at this age still determinedto let song flourish and go where it may.

Paul Vangelisti is the author of more than twenty books of poetry, including Embarrassment of Survival and Days Shadows Pass. Wholly Falsetto with People Dancing, a memoir of sorts, appeared in 2013, and a collection of poems, Two, was published by Talisman House in 2011. A noted editor, anthologist, and translator from the Italian, Vangelisti translated, with Lucia Re, Amelia Roselli's War Variations, which won both the 2006 Ennio Flaiano Prize for Literary Translation in Italy and the PEN USA Translation Prize.