Copyright © 2013 Paola Corso. All Rights Reserved.
Tillie Olsen Creative Writing Award Winner
THE LAUNDRESS
CATCHES HER BREATH
by Paola Corso
"Corso focuses like a Leica on the details
of daily urban working class life from
a fiercely rendered narrative perspective.
Pioneering a mode of tough yet poignant
documentary verse, Corso draws us into the
grainy, grimy world of factory and clothesline,
diner and lung disease with extraordinary skill.
Her collection is in fact breathtaking."
—Sandra M. Gilbert, author of Belongings
. . .
Newly Released
ONCE I WAS TOLD THE AIR
WAS NOT FOR BREATHING
by Paola Corso
With Introduction by
Michele Fazio and Michelle M. Tokarczyk
"Corso documents dangerous work conditions
in mills and sweatshops, or anyone downwind
of the industrial polluters' carcinogenic fumes.
Tragically, much of our air now 'is not safe
for breathing,' but these essential and
heart-breaking poems are pure oxygen.
Breathe deeply and learn from this wise poet."
—Maggie Anderson, author of
Windfall: New and Selected Poems
. . .
Now Available in E-book
CATINA'S HAIRCUT
A NOVEL IN STORIES
by Paola Corso
"Corso follows an Italian family through
four generations from the Calabrian town
of San Procopio to Pittsburgh in this fable-like
follow-up to Giovanna's 86 Circles....
The stories, individually, find moments
of inspired, ethereal revelation."
—Publishers Weekly
. . .
Now Available in Paperback
GIOVANNA'S 86 CIRCLES
AND OTHER STORIES
by Paola Corso
"...memorable and entrancing...powerful
in the moment thanks to the imagery's
dream-like density."
—Publishers Weekly
. . .
POLITICS OF WATER:
A CONFLUENCE
OF WOMEN'S VOICES
Edited by Paola Corso and Nandita Ghosh
A Special Issue of
International Feminist Journal of Politics
with guest editors' introductions,
critical essays, narratives, poetry,
and book reviews that respond to
a growing concern for the unequal access
men and women have to water
in an increasingly fragile
physical environment.
. . .
DEATH BY RENAISSANCE
Poems by Paola Corso
Photographs by George Thomas Mendel
"Few books address the anxiety
of moving between classes and the
assimilation of second-generation
immigrants with such urgency
and poetic capability as Paola Corso's
first collection of poems..."
—The Indiana Review
