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W. S. Di Piero
Portrait of W. S. Di Piero

Simone Di Piero has published thirteen collections of poetry—most recently The Complaints (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2019)—and six volumes of essays and criticism, including last year’s Fat: New and Uncollected Prose (Carnegie Mellon, 2020). His work has appeared in The Best American Essays twice, and his translation of This Strange Joy: Selected Poems of Sandro Penna (1982) won him the Academy of American Poets’ first Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2001, and won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2012. He lives in San Francisco. (updated 4/2021)

 

AGNI has published the following work:

Poetry
Lorca at Eden Lake
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Poetry
To a Friend Sick Again
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Poetry
Summer Returns
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Poetry
Second Horn
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AGNI has published the following translations:

Poetry
Holy Saturday in Manfredonia
by Leonardo Sinisgalli
Translated from the Italian by W. S. Di Piero
Poetry
Easter 1952
by Leonardo Sinisgalli
Translated from the Italian by W. S. Di Piero
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