Joseph Fasano | |
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| Born | May 17, 1982 Suffern, New York |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (BA) Columbia University (MFA) |
| Genre | Poetry, Fiction |
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Joseph Fasano (born May 17, 1982) is an American poet and novelist. Fasano was raised in Goshen, New York, where he attended Goshen Central High School. He earned a BA in philosophy from Harvard University in 2005 and an MFA from Columbia University in 2008. [1] His poem "Mahler in New York" won the 2008 RATTLE Poetry Prize. [2] He has been a finalist for the Missouri Review Editors' Prize [3] and the Times Literary Supplement Poetry Competition, among other honors. [4] He has taught at SUNY Purchase, Manhattanville College, and Columbia University. [5]
Fasano's poems have appeared in the Yale Review , the Southern Review , FIELD, Tin House , Boston Review , Measure, Passages North , the American Literary Review , and other publications. [6]
In 2011, Fasano's first book, Fugue for Other Hands, won the Cider Press Review Book Award. [7] It was nominated for the Kate Tufts Poetry Award and the Poets' Prize, "awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award." His second collection of poems, Inheritance, was released in May 2014. In 2015, Fasano published Vincent, a book-length poem based very loosely on the 2008 killing of Tim McLean by Vince Li on a Greyhound Bus near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, on the Trans Canada Highway. [8] His fourth collection of poems, The Crossing, was released in 2018. Upon the publication of The Last Song of the World (BOA Editions 2024), The Massachusetts Review [9] wrote, "Fasano is a poet of fatherhood, intimacy, friendship, love, and so much more, which is to say, he is a poet for the living, for life."
Fasano's first novel, The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing, was published in 2020 to critical acclaim. [10] [11] [12] [13] His second novel, The Swallows of Lunetto, became a viral social media sensation during his 2023 European book tour, covered by the BBC , the Evening Standard , The Independent , and other media. [14] [15] [16]
In 2013, the literary magazine Polutona released a selection of his poems in Russian translation. [17]
