life print, in points

K. V. Skene, who was herself a runner-up in a previous erbacce-prize for poetry, tells us that Renée M. Sgroi’s perceptive poetry pulls you into an intimate world of childhood, of adolescence of “children born of singsong and hide-and-seek” (from midnight ) and generational interconnection – mothers and grandmothers, fathers and daughters, birth and death and “maybe she searched for the child/ taken from her /losing herself” (from maybe ). Her poetry geographically ranges from Canada, interpreting and including familial roots in Sicily, and occasionally beyond. She asks: “what is this legacy you’ve left in my bones?/ lingua,/ glossa” (from Linguaglossa ) while intuitively and consistently writing in-between the longitude of language, and the latitude of love: “and we begin again/ to place the settings, prepare/ for our unknown guests” (from The table is cleared ). A very impressive collection.

Nothing to add to that other than to endorse every word and to inform you that this collection is 108 pages and perfect bound and that Renée M. Sgroi was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. She holds a PhD from the University of Toronto, and her research on reality TV has been published internationally.