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Pasquale Verdicchio (born March 4, 1954) is an Italian Canadian poet, critic and translator teaching in the US at
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. Born in Naples, Italy, he moved to Vancouver BC in the late 60s. He received his BA from
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, MA from the
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, and PhD from the
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. In the departments of Italian and Comparative Literature, he teaches Italian language, film and literature, and creative writing. Pasquale Verdicchio was one of the founding members of the Association of Italian-Canadian Writers in 1986. Other founders include Antonio D'Alfonso, Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, Dino Minni, Fulvio Caccia, Marco Micone and Joseph Pivato. Verdicchio was president of the Association of Italian-Canadian Writers from 1994-98 and again from 2006-8. In 2020 Antonio D'Alfonso edited, ''Pasquale Verdicchio: Essays on His Works'' a collection of literary studies on the many books of poetry and criticism which Verdicchio produced in his long career.


Publications


Poetry

*''Moving Landscape''. Montreal, QC: Guernica, 1985. *''Ipsissima Verba''. Los Angeles, CA: Parentheses, 1986. *''A Critical Geography''. San Diego, CA: Parentheses Writing Series, 1989. *''Nomadic Trajectory''. Montreal, QC: Guernica Editions, 1990. *''Isthmus''. Los Angeles, CA: Littoral Editions, 1991. *''The Posthumous Poet: a suite for Pier Paolo Pasolini''. Los Angeles CA: Jahbone Press, 1993. *''Approaches to Absence''. Toronto, ON: Guernica Editions, 1994. *''The House is Past: Poems 1978-1998''. Toronto, ON: Guernica Editions, 2000. *''La nave del mondo''. Porto dei Santi, Bologna: 2000. *''Le Paysage qui bouge''. By Pasquale Verdicchio. Translated and selected by Antonio D'Alfonso. Montreal, QC: Éditions du Noiroît, 2000. *''This Nothing’s Place''. Montreal, QC: Guernica Editions, 2008. * ''Only You'', Victoria, BC: Ekstasis, 2021.


Non-fiction

*''Devils in Paradise: Writings on Post-emigrant Cultures''. Toronto, ON: Guernica, 1997. *''Bound by Distance: Rethinking Nationalism Through the Italian Diaspora''. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997. *''Duologue: On Culture and Identity. By Antonio D'Alfonso and Pasquale Verdicchio''. Toronto, ON: Guernica Editions, 1998. *''Looters, photographers, and thieves: aspects of Italian photographic culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries''. Lanham, MD: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011. *''Encounters with the real in contemporary Italian literature and cinema''. Loredana Di Martino and Pasquale Verdicchio, eds. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. *''Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature: The Denatured Wild''. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016.


Translations

* “Tok”. By Gabriele Belletti. Pasquale Verdicchio, trans. Italy: Edizioni Zest Sostenibili, 2023. *''The Golden Man''. By Vivian Lamarque. Pasquale Verdicchio, trans. Victoria, BC: Ekstasis, 2017. *''Fosfeni''. By Andrea Zanzotto. Pasquale Verdicchio, trans. Toronto, ON: Guernica Editions, 2010. *''Dark Man''. By Robert Pace. Pasquale Verdicchio, trans. Toronto, ON: Guernica Editions, 2005. *''Women and Lovers''. By Maria Ardizzi. Pasquale Verdicchio, trans. Toronto, ON: Guernica Editions, 2000. *''The Wall of the Earth''. By Giorgio Caproni. Pasquale Verdicchio, trans. Montreal, QC: Guernica, 1992. *''Futurism and Advertising''. By Fortunato Depero. Pasquale Verdicchio, trans. San Diego, CA: Parentheses Writing Series, 1990. *''The Southern Question''. By Antonio Gramsci. Pasquale Verdicchio, trans. Chicago, IL: Bordighera, 1995. *''Cosmogony of an Event''. By Francesco Mangone. Pasquale Verdicchio, trans. San Diego, CA: Parentheses, 1988. *''A Rage of Love''. By Alda Merini. Pasquale Verdicchio, trans. Toronto, ON: Guernica, 1996. *''The Holy Land''. By Alda Merini and Stephanie H. Jed. Pasquale Verdicchio, trans. Toronto, ON: Guernica Editions, 2002. *''A Desperate Vitality''. By Pier Paolo Pasolini. Pasquale Verdicchio, trans. Parentheses Writing Series, 1996. *''The Savage Father''. By Pier Paolo Pasolini. Pasquale Verdicchio, trans. Toronto, ON: Guernica, 1999. *''Passenger''. By Antonio Porta. Pasquale Verdicchio, trans. Montreal, QC: Guernica Editions, 1986. *''Passenger Selected Poems (1958-1979)''. 2nd ed. By Antonio Porta. Pasquale Verdicchio, trans. Toronto, ON: Guernica Editions, 2001. *''Salomè''. By Antonio Porta. Pasquale Verdicchio, trans. San Diego, CA: Parentheses, 1996. *''Metropolis''. By Antonio Porta. Pasquale Verdicchio, trans. Los Angeles, CA: Green Integer, 1999 *''Tropes, Monsters, and Poetic Transformations''. By Giambattista Vico. Pasquale Verdicchio, trans. San Diego, CA: Parentheses Writing Series, 1990. *''Seventeen Variations on Proposed Themes for a Pure Phonetic Ideology''. By Emilio Villa. Pasquale Verdicchio, trans. San Diego, CA: Parentheses Writing Series: 1991. *''Foresta Ultra Naturam/The Forest Beyond Nature''. By Emilio Villa. Paul Vangelisti and Pasquale Verdicchio, trans. San Francisco: Red Hill Press, 1989.


References

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