Joseph Fasano (born May 17, 1982) is an American poet and novelist. Fasano was raised in Goshen, New York, where he attended Goshen Central High School. He earned a BA in philosophy from Harvard University in 2005 and an MFA from Columbia University in 2008.[2] His poem "Mahler in New York" won the 2008 RATTLE Poetry Prize.[3] He has been a finalist for the Missouri Review Editors' Prize[4] and the Times Literary Supplement Poetry Competition, among other honors.[5] He has taught at SUNY Purchase, Manhattanville College, and Columbia University.[6]
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| Born | May 17, 1982 Suffern, New York |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (BA) Columbia University (MFA) |
| Genre | Poetry, Fiction |
| Spouse | Laura Rinaldi[1] |
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Fasano's poems have appeared in the Yale Review, the Southern Review, FIELD, Tin House, Boston Review, Measure, Passages North, the American Literary Review, and other publications.[7]
In 2011, Fasano's first book, Fugue for Other Hands, won the Cider Press Review Book Award.[8] It was nominated for the Kate Tufts Poetry Award and the Poets' Prize, "awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award." His second collection of poems, Inheritance, was released in May 2014. In 2015, Fasano published Vincent, a book-length poem based very loosely on the 2008 killing of Tim McLean by Vince Li on a Greyhound Bus near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, on the Trans Canada Highway.[9] His fourth collection of poems, The Crossing, was released in 2018.
Fasano's first novel, The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing, was published in 2020 to critical acclaim.[10][11][12][13] His second novel, The Swallows of Lunetto, became a viral social media sensation during his 2023 European book tour, covered by the BBC, the Evening Standard, The Independent, and other media.[14][15][16]
In 2013, the literary magazine Polutona released a selection of his poems in Russian translation.[17]
Selected bibliography
edit- The Last Song of the World (BOA Editions, 2024)
- The Magic Words (TarcherPerigee, 2024)
- The Swallows of Lunetto (Maudlin House, 2022)
- The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing, (Platypus Press, 2020)
- The Crossing (Cider Press Review, 2018)
- Vincent (Cider Press Review, 2015)
- Inheritance (Cider Press Review, 2014)
- Fugue for Other Hands (Cider Press Review, 2013)
References
edit- ^ "Mental Illness, Recovery, and Creation: a Conversation". Archipelago.
- ^ http://www.combustus.com/13/joseph-fasano-poet/ Interview with Joseph Fasano
- ^ http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2009/01/mahler-in-new-york-by-joseph-fasano/ Archived 2014-02-28 at the Wayback Machine RATTLE 2008 Poetry Prize Winning Submission
- ^ http://www.missourireview.com/tmrsubmissions/editors-prize-contest/editors-prize-winners/#2009 Missouri Review Editors Prize 2009 Winners Page
- ^ http://waywiser-press.com/josephfasano.html Archived 2013-03-27 at the Wayback Machine Waywiser Press Page for Joseph Fasano
- ^ "Fasano, Joseph". Archived from the original on 2013-05-24. Retrieved 2013-07-09. Joseph Fasano Bio Page at Manhattanville College
- ^ http://www.versedaily.org/2013/aboutjosephfasano.shtml Verse Daily: About Fugue for Other Hands
- ^ http://ciderpressreview.com/contributors/joseph-fasano-ba-2011/ Cider Press Review 2011 Book Award Announcement
- ^ Miljure, Ben. "New book offers imagined perspective of Greyhound bus killer". CTVNews Winnipeg. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
- ^ "The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing by Joseph Fasano". September 2020.
- ^ "The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing by Joseph Fasano". 5 September 2020.
- ^ "September Book Review: The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing by Joseph Fasano". September 2020.
- ^ "THE DARK HEART OF EVERY WILD THING | Kirkus Reviews".
- ^ "Author Joseph Fasano recounts sitting next to someone reading his book on a flight". 23 February 2023.
- ^ "'Magical moment' for author as he sat next to stranger on plane reading his book". Independent.co.uk. 23 February 2023.
- ^ "'Magical moment' for author as he sat next to stranger on plane reading his book". 23 February 2023.
- ^ "Джозеф Фазано - СТИХИ - полутона".