A Critical Geography

La Jolla, California: Parenthesis Writing Series, 1989. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [22cm/8.5in], paperbound, pp. [12]. Pen & ink sketches by Italo Scanga. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Pasquale Verdicchio has taught courses in literature, film and writing in the Dept of Literature at UCSD since 1986. Considered a leading translator of major Italian writers, he has englished the work of Pasolini, Merini, Caproni, Porta, and Gramsci among others. His poetry, reviews, criticism and photography have been published in journals around the world. As an author his books include Devils in Paradise: Writings on Post-Emigrant Cultures (Guernica, 1997), Bound by Distance: Rethinking Nationalism through the Italian Diaspora (1998), and the poetry collection This Nothing's Place (Guernica, 2008). He is a founding member and past president of the Association of Italian Canadian Writer and a founder and Associate Director of the San Diego Italian Film Fetival. ... In 1978, Italo Scanga settled in La Jolla to teach at UCSD with Newton and Helen Harrison, David and Eleanor Antin, Manny Farber, Patricia Patterson, and Alan Kaprow. It was here his that he established his first real studio in an old water tank on campus. He created the "Fear" series while visiting Dale Chihuly that summer in Providence, RI.