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Q&A with Michael Calabrese

Q&A with Michael Calabrese

The poet writes on diverse registers; he strives to be realistic in his depiction of what goes on in a bar at 9AM—something, by the way, that hasn’t changed much in nearly seven hundred years nor from one culture to another.

Excerpt from The Devil and the Dolce Vita

Excerpt from The Devil and the Dolce Vita

Upon its release in 1960, La dolce vita seized the imagination of Italy and the world, not only as a brilliant work of art, but as something of a warning. Paolina’s world and the souls of the good people that inhabited it were in danger.

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