The Swallows of Lunetto

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Yes, this is a novel, but there is poetry running through every scene, every moment, every conversation. At times a conversation and at others a secret rumination on purpose and desire that the reader feels privy to, Theobald’s poetry sits at the intersection of lightness and heaviness—each poem building like the ticking of a time bomb.

Truly it seems something like a tragic fairytale at times, and resonates with the cupid/psyche myth as well, asking us what we are willing to do with our natural thirst for mystery and love. This glow imbues a young boy named Leo, who must use the papacy to divide the time between those centuries, speed up modernity at the very beginning of the 19th century, and oppose the ever-growing reign of Napoleon. 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.From Joseph Fasano, the acclaimed author of The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing, comes The Swallows of Lunetto, the powerful story of a young couple's escape from Italian fascism at the end of the Second World War. Several times I thought, ‘I should get this poem tattooed on me’ and I do not normally think things like that. The poems have the kind of specificity that allows them to feel universal, like some beautiful, demented collective dream. Tell Me How You Really Feel is the only novella set in the municipality of Murrysville, Pennsylvania.

Rosso weaves a rich tapestry of characters and experiences set in her otherworldly vision of New Orleans with these interconnected stories. Nick Gregorio is a thrilling new voice in American fiction and his debut novel, Good Grief, is as packed with emotion as any funeral and as playful as any game of Ninja Turtles. Gut-wrenching verse combined with unique insights help to form this poetic snapshot that questions the morality of war in the 21st century.As an artist and someone resisting the far-right political wave in the world today, i totally relate to Alexandra, the female lead in Swallows of Lunetto.