

His work has been widely translated and anthologized, and he has taught at Columbia University, Manhattanville College, and The State University of New York.Īs I read The Swallows of Lunetto, I couldn’t help but think of Faulkner’s often-quoted phrase, “The past is never dead.


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.” His first album of original songs, The Wind that Knows the Way, was released in 2022. His novels include The Swallows of Lunetto (Maudlin House, 2022) and The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing (Platypus Press, 2020). His books of poetry include The Crossing (Cider Press Review, 2018), Vincent (2015), Inheritance (2014), and Fugue for Other Hands (2013). The Swallows of Lunetto will be available to purchase from Maudlin House.Joseph Fasano is an American poet, novelist, and songwriter. Fasano is the 2008 winner of the RATTLE Poetry Prize, a finalist for the 2009 Missouri Review Editors’ Prize, and twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has been featured in the Academy of American Poets’ poem-a-day program and on Verse Daily. Fasano’s debut novel The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing was released in 2020 by Platypus Press to high critical acclaim.įasano’s work has appeared in The Yale Review, The Southern Review, Boston Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Tin House, FIELD, Measure, and Passages North, among others. Joseph Fasano is the author of four books of poetry: The Crossing (Cider Press, 2018), Fugue for Other Hands (Cider Press, 2013), which won the 2011 Cider Press Review Book Award Inheritance (Cider Press, 2014), which has been nominated for the James Laughlin Award and Vincent (Cider Press, 2015). The book will be published on November 25, 2022. The book follows a young couple who escapes from Italian fascism during the end of the Second World War.

The Swallows of Lunetto by alumnus and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Undergraduate Creative Writing Joseph Fasano '08 was recently bought by Mallory Smart at Maudlin House.
