Alien, Correspondent - Di Nardo, Antony
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Poetry. This arresting first collection is, in part, a delicately balanced look at Beirut from the perspective of a Westerner who lives and works in that remarkable city. Whether writing about the Middle East or about domestic life, Di Nardo refuses to romanticize; he doesn't moralize about the causes of perennial conflicts. He is that rare thing: a clear-eyed witness. "Time and space are lenses Di Nardo overlays to bring Beirut into historic and personal focus.... Evidence of violence abounds here, as does love, and Di Nardo epitomizes, like Cavafy, the empathy required to be its perfect correspondent"--John Barton.…mehr

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Poetry. This arresting first collection is, in part, a delicately balanced look at Beirut from the perspective of a Westerner who lives and works in that remarkable city. Whether writing about the Middle East or about domestic life, Di Nardo refuses to romanticize; he doesn't moralize about the causes of perennial conflicts. He is that rare thing: a clear-eyed witness. "Time and space are lenses Di Nardo overlays to bring Beirut into historic and personal focus.... Evidence of violence abounds here, as does love, and Di Nardo epitomizes, like Cavafy, the empathy required to be its perfect correspondent"--John Barton.
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Antony Di Nardo was born in Montreal and has lived in northwestern Ontario, Toronto, Oshawa, the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Germany, and Beirut. His poetry appears widely in journals across Canada and internationally. Both writer and teacher, he has worked as editor of a small town weekly newspaper, has contributed fiction reviews to Books in Canada, and writes fiction and non-fiction content for educational texts. He teaches at International College in Beirut. His chapbooks, Three Poems and Speedwell, are published by Tibbits Hill Press of Sutton, Quebec, and his first full collection of poetry, ALIEN, CORRESPONDENT, was published by Brick Books in March 2010. Another book of poetry, Soul on Standby, was released by Exile Editions in April 2010.