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In his 80th year, the poet is obsessed with the notion of location and its effect on his writing. The book's title, 'Traveling', underscores a fascination with the notion of here/there, Pasadena/Bagnone, exterior/interior, all of which upheld by a growing determination to discover the silence inhabiting language. Written between 2022-2025, Traveling celebrates the necessary illusions and forgiveness that characterize an almost 60-year career. Or as one of Vangelisti's more recent poems reminds us:
The rest is anything but silence.
Now at this age still determined
to let song flourish and go where it may.
In his 80th year, the poet is obsessed with the notion of location and its effect on his writing. The book's title, 'Traveling', underscores a fascination with the notion of here/there, Pasadena/Bagnone, exterior/interior, all of which upheld by a growing determination to discover the silence inhabiting language. Written between 2022-2025, Traveling celebrates the necessary illusions and forgiveness that characterize an almost 60-year career. Or as one of Vangelisti's more recent poems reminds us:
The rest is anything but silence.
Now at this age still determined
to let song flourish and go where it may.
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