Poetry

The Guests at the Gate

Anthony Piccione’s poetry is deep imagery at its best and most richly developed. Readers of Robert Bly and James Wright will find and appreciate in Piccione that recognizable voice of everyperson asking the most essential questions, making the most pertinent observations of the human heart in the here and now. Lovers of Chinese poetry will appreciate a modern descendent who, like Li Po, can share a cup of wine with the moon. Robert Bly has written the Introduction to The Guests at the Gate.

For The One To Come

The infant's delicate forehead a beacon of promise,
his perfect human face, all that we are
depends on him, his stare from the other world,
his great, unblinking eyes so new to earth. T

he miraculous one keeps rising among us.
Now do we turn, and rush to prepare the way.

© BOA Editions, Ltd 2002

Available editions:
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Paperback ISBN: 1-929918-26-7
Price: $13.95
Publishing Date: July 2002

FormatPaperback

Publication DateJuly 1, 2002

ISBN1-929918-26-7

$13.95

About the Author

Anthony Piccione was the author of four collections of poetry from BOA: The Guests at the Gate (2002), For the Kingdom (1995), Seeing It Was So (1986), and Anchor Dragging (1978), chosen by Archibald MacLeish for BOA's A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America Series. Piccione founded Upright Hall, a residence retreat for poets on his farm in the hills near Prattsburgh, NY, and was one of the first poets to support the Poets For Peace readings organized by poet Larry Jaffe. He was Professor Emeritus of English and creative writing at the State University of New York College at Brockport, and died in 2001.