(Pasquale) has an ability to create what the reader needs to feel and wants to know. He lifts us with an ecstatic imagination, placing us exactly there, happily at the center, as if we've found the right dream.--Grace Calavieri.

Emanuel di Pasquale came to America at the age of 15. In 1966, he earned an M.A. in English from NYU and has been teaching in college ever since. His first book of poems, Genesis, was published by BOA Editions in 1989. Since then, he has published a number of his poetry books (his latest being, Cartwheel to the Moon (a children's book), from Cricket Books, The Silver Lake Love Poems, SICILIANA, WRITING ANEW: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, and HARVEST, all from Bordighera press. His long poem, Connections, won the Chelsea Poetry Award. He worked as poetry editor of Chelsea for a number of years. He has translated many Italian poets. His translation of Silvio Ramat's Sharing a Trip won di Pasquale The Academy of American Poets' Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship in 2002. He also won the Bordighera Poetry Prize for his translation into Italian of Joe Salerno's Song of the Tulip Tree. His translation of Dante's Vita Nuova will be published in 2011 by Xenos Press.