In The 13th Sunday after Pentecost, Joseph Bathanti offers poems that delve deep into a life reimagined through a mythologized past. Moving from his childhood to the present, weaving through the Itali
Joseph Bathanti, poet laureate of North Carolina (2012-2014) and professor of Creative Writing at Appalachian State University, presents 13 prodigious essays about culture, religion, the Vietnam War,
East Liberty is a poetic, passionate coming-of-age novel spanning 1955 to 1963, set in an Italian-American neighborhood in Pittsburgh. Roberto (Bobby) Renzo, the novel's fatherless narrator and main c
