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Shooting the Works: On Poetry and Pictures.(Brief Article)
W.S. Di Piero. TriQuarterly/Northwestern Univ., $14.95 (230p) ISBN 0-8101-5052-2; cloth $29.95 -5051-4
In this wide-ranging collection of essays, art criticism, memoirs and notebook excerpts, poet and essayist Di Piero (The Dog Star;, Memory and Enthusiasm) continues to explore his lifelong passions--literary and visual art--from a personal perspective. He writes not as a detached scholar but as a working poet and art lover who, while highly knowledgeable about his subjects, is always aware of how they figure in his own experience. In "Poetry and Sauerkraut," he mixes memoir with social critique as he reviews, with some ambivalence, his youth in a working-class Italian …
