Emanuel di Pasquale refers to In Truth as "his little book of poems." The book may be small, but the poems are far from little. Going beyond connecting the reader to nature in a lyrical and imagistic manner, these poems bathe the reader in their simple silence and open a rift in the fabric of that nature exposing the reader to a glimpse of an eternity within themselves.

Emanuel di Pasquale was born in Ragusa, Sicily, and emigrated to America in 1957. He holds a B. A. in English from Adelphi University and an M. A. from NYU. His translations from Italian include The Journey Ends Here by Carlo della Corte (Gradiva, 2000), Sharing a Trip by Silvio Ramat (Bordighera Press, 2001), which won a Raiziss/dePalchi Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, and Between the Blast Furnaces and the Dizziness by Milo De Angelis (Chelsea Editions, 2003). He has published sixteen books of his own poetry, the first being Genesis (Boa Editions, 1989); and the latest four being The Ocean's Will (2013) from Guernica Editions (Canada), Self-Portrait (NYQ Books, 2014), Knowing the Moment (Blast Press, 2014), and Poems in Sicily and America (Blast Press, 2016). He has also written a book for children, Cartwheel to the Moon (Cricket Books, 2003). In 2012 Xenos books published his translation of Dante's La Vita Nova which he co-translated with Bruno Alemanni. He is the Poet Laureate of Long Branch, New Jersey, and teaches English at Middlesex County College.