W. S Di Piero

"W.S. Di Piero, a fresh and powerful voice in American poetry, opens this collection about public and private worlds with poems that revisit the deaths of his parents. It is an important adult passage for him, and for them a last chance to leave a message: his father lying in bed, "bemused and contemptuous / of the hell in which he lay"; his mother soon to be laid out in the cheap gold flats "that made her look young and men look twice." Di Piero...

A collection of over one hundred poems by American poet W.S. Di Piero.

Ion (Ancient Greek: Ἴων, Iōn) is an ancient Greek play by Euripides, thought to be written between 414 and 412 BCE. It follows the orphan Ion in the discovery of his origins.

Outside the temple of Apollo at Delphi, Hermes recalls the time when Creusa, the daughter of Erectheus, mated with Apollo in a cave at Long Rocks under the Acropolis. Apollo concealed her pregnancy from her father and Creusa

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