The Swallows of Lunetto

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Fasano's writing has appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, The Yale Review, The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, Boston Review, Measure, Tin House, The Adroit Journal, Ver Joseph Fasano is the author of the novels The Swallows of Lunetto (Maudlin House, 2022) and The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing (Platypus Press, 2020), which was named one of the "20 Best Small Press Books of 2020." His books of poetry include The Crossing (2018), Vincent (2015), Inheritance (2014), and Fugue for Other Hands (2013). His honors include the Cider Press Review Book Award, the Rattle Poetry Prize, and a nomination for the Poets' Prize, "awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award year." I was thrilled to read this book before its release date as an ARC and I’m so excited for it to be introduced to the public. I wanted to write a review ASAP because I see the anticipation growing here on Goodreads! It is worth the wait, and well worth the anticipation. Fasano's second novel is an absolute masterpiece of history, psychology, and storytelling. Yes, it's set in Calabria in 1945-46, but its truths clearly resonate with the contemporary US and elsewhere. I hope this book reaches you, whoever you are, because it has things to tell us about how we get caught up in dangerous ideas--and how we overcome them--and it does so beautifully. A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango Street. Besides that, the emphasis on dreams is too much, and the dialogue is not realistic, with many a conversation that (either flew over my head or) was just pointless (not a literal quote:) ‘how do you know?’ ‘Know what? I don’t’ ‘you don’t’ ‘I don’t think you’re supposed to know. You’re supposed to be in it.’ ‘That’s where we are?’ ‘That’s where we are.’

How do we live with our choices, grow through them and beyond them? How do we love those who have committed evil? How do we live with the legacy of our ancestor’s acts?She now plans to attend one of his book readings in Scotland, which is his reason for travelling here – a promotional book tour. Alexandra is an artist and Leonardo is a former soldier who fought with the Italian fascists in the Second World War,” the writer told STV News.

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Joseph Fasano writes about The Swallows of Lunetto from Maudlin House. Magical moment' for author as he sat next to stranger on plane reading his book". 23 February 2023. A novella about an Artist pushing himself to the brink in the name of his art. We’re all dying but his art can save us, or at least that’s what he says… Maudlin House to Publish ‘The Swallows of Lunetto’ by Professor Joseph Fasano ‘08 | School of the Arts He had been broken so many times, first by war and then by the wars within him, but he had prevailed. That’s all there is, to prevail.something like that is perhaps beyond words. It’s a monstrous thing. And such things are only given a shape later. In the story we tell. from the Swallows of Lunetto by Joseph Fasano Seyed Morteza Hamidzadeh transports the reader to another part of the world in his poetry book, ‘Exile Me.’ ….We are given an extremely personal, honest, and strong collection of poems that present vignettes of struggle, brutality, and war. Hamidzadeh not only gives us that strong, raw voice we desire, but an eloquent one, too…” – Zach Benard, author of 'The Lost Islander.' The novel considers ageless questions about the source of human evil and how society and individuals respond, about personal guilt and forgiveness. And it is about love that looks deep into another’s soul and, with an almost relentless insistence, points out the path to wholeness. http://ciderpressreview.com/contributors/joseph-fasano-ba-2011/ Cider Press Review 2011 Book Award Announcement

The Swallows of Lunetto is not a story of war, exactly. It is a story, in part, of war’s aftermath, of what happens when a young man looks up from his youth and realizes, with horror, what he has done. And it is a story of the love and forgiveness that just might be possible not only in spite of but because of the ways in which we have erred. A book about friendship, covetousness, love, depravity, self-destruction, art, dreams, freaky magic, and Los Angeles.Joseph Fasano is the author of the novels The Swallows of Lunetto (Maudlin House, 2022) and The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing (Platypus Press, 2020), which was named one of the “20 Best Small Press Books of 2020.” His books of poetry include The Crossing (2018), Vincent (2015), Inheritance (2014), and Fugue for Other Hands (2013). His honors include the Cider Press Review Book Award, the Rattle Poetry Prize, and a nomination for the Poets’ Prize, “awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award year.” Shan Cawley is currently a student at West Virginia University studying English with a focus in literary & cultural studies. In 2017, Shan was the recipient of WVU NAACP’s “Rising Star” Award. Her first collection of poems, 'depression is a thunderstorm and i am a scared dog', was published by Maudlin House Press during the summer of 2017. Her work has appeared in apt magazine, Crab Fat Magazine, tenderness, yea, seafoam magazine and elsewhere. When Shan isn’t writing, she is serving as a member of her university’s Student Government Association Student Senate, advocating for women’s healthcare and rights for sexual assault victims, and tweeting about something oddly specific.

So much of the brutal, beautiful magic of Christina Rosso's Creole Conjure is in its intricate details and how deftly they weave themselves together into a seductively monstrous, fairytale tapestry. Each one of these stories is inextricably intertwined with its sister stories-each a single coiled snake on the head of the well-groomed Gorgon. Strands of the old-world fairy tales we know are braided with the new-world characters and landscapes. In Rosso's darkly dreamy New Orleans and lush swamplands, women and girls find themselves both freed and dammned by their own bestial appetites. You can't be certain from one moment to the next who will be devouring whom." – Lindsay Lusby, author of Catechesis: a postpastoral Alexandra Bianchi lives and works in Lunetto, a provincial village in Italy's Calabria region, which finds itself ravaged by war in the summer of 1945. Leonardo Gemetti, a young man from Lunetto, has been missing for nearly eight years, and all his village knows of him is that he has carried out an atrocity against the Italian partisans in Mussolini's fallen Republic of Salò. When Alexandra meets a masked figure in the streets of Lunetto, she cannot imagine what she will learn about history and her place in it. My life was moving on. I began a new relationship, moved, cut down on drinking (and then, later, stopped altogether). I gave myself the time and space to change. And all the while, those roots I’d put down into the darkness were doing their work. Tony D’Angelo’s brother Nate is dead. His family is devastated, his life is thrown into upheaval, and he doesn’t want to deal with any of it. Not with his brother’s death, not with his guilt-ridden father, and not with the consequences of his erratic behavior involving his ex-girlfriend. But when he meets Mikey, a hallucination of his nine-year-old self dressed as a Ninja Turtle, Tony is forced to face all the things he’d rather not. This, of course, meant research. Though sometimes in this life of mine I have failed to live voraciously, I have always read voraciously—it is a drug for me, a necessity, a love—and very often I am reading of history. The history of war, in particular, fascinates me, telling as it does the terrible story of what we can do to one another, and thereby teaching us, if we can listen, the ways to avoid catastrophe when next it holds out its hand.

Ross McCleary is from Edinburgh in Scotland. He says he has stories and poems published widely in print and online. He says he has had a pamphlet published by Spacecraft Press. He says he is one of the organisers of spoken word night Inky Fingers. He says he is the editor of podcast journal Lies, Dreaming. He says he is working on 2 pieces loosely linked to this book. He says he was born 9 months after Jorge Luis Borges passed away. He says a lot of things and not all of them are lies.