Traveling

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>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 </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Traveling</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> celebrates the necessary illusions and forgiveness that characterize an almost 60-year career. Or as one of Vangelisti's more recent poems reminds us:</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The rest is anything but silence.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Now at this age still determined</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>to let song flourish and go where it may.</span></p><p></p>