A Boat That Can Carry Two (Bordighera Poetry Prize) by MatthewCariello Paperback, 124 Pages, Published 2011 by Bordighera Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59954-030-6, ISBN: 1-59954-030-4
"Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from English into Italian by Ambra Meda. "A BOAT THAT CAN CARRY TWO is both an elegy and an affirmation of life. Haunted by memories of a lost sister, reprieved by the reality of a living daughter, Cariello's lyric voice travels between times and continents, along with an apple tree, an old boat, a street in New Jersey, and a street in China. It is a book that pauses, and then moves forward, with gr ..."
"“Has anyone seen Linda?” he asks again, as our line folds in on itself, to meet at
the center. Linda has been gone for at least five minutes, we figure, since it's
been about that long since we've heard her incessant chirps from the far right of
the line. John instructs us to split up, with half of us ... of Linda. Carey and I
choose to go off and wait. Waiting there with Henry is the guy in the gray hoodie,
probably the only other ..."
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