Here are some lovely – and highly appreciated! – blurbs for Day Lasts Forever. The first is by Pier Paolo Pasolini, who wrote these words in a letter to Mario dell’Arco in response to reading his first collection, Taja ch’è rosso! (1946). Pasolini and dell’Arco would go on to curate an anthology of Italian dialect poetry in the 1950s. It seemed like the perfect encapsulation of dell’Arco’s poetry.

The other generous blurbs come from contemporary American poets and translators whose work I deeply admire. You can find out more about them at their websites: A.M. Juster, Geoffrey Brock and Boris Dralyuk. I thank them for their close reading and the kindness of their words.