The Widowing Radiance

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(36 36 36 1)>The Widowing Radiance</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(36 36 36 1)> is a poem about poetry querying what it means to live a life in poetry and praising and interrogating the life and art fountaining through the creative imagination. This book of poetry is also about being a father a husband a son and a man. And it is about the influence of the poet's Italian American Roman Catholic upbringing </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>from the invocation of his namesake in the prologue to the last canto addressing his children and his children's children.</span></p>