The Italian Cultural Institute and the American Initiative For Italian Culture present the premiere of a new publication by Bordighera Press The Mandate of Heaven (Poems of an Italian Childhood) with poems by Grace Cavalieri, with Italian translations by Sabine Pascarelli.
Grace and Sabine reads are in English and Italian.
The evening features musical interludes by world class violinist Diana Sundsvold.
Sarah Browning, Silvana Straw, Avideh Shashaani and Miles Moore will add their poems, in English, for the evening.
“Grace Cavalieri’s The Mandate of Heaven celebrates the beauty to be found when memory is placed at the service of time. Ancestors and children have a home in the imagination of a poet who frees the reader to experience the continuity of life from continent to continent in words that proclaim the unique beauty of each and every individual life.”
Sonja James, Reviewer, The Journal
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Embassy of Italy – Auditorium
3000 Whitehaven Street NW
Washington, DC 20008
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Grace Cavalieri
Italian American poetry. Grace Cavalieri is an award-winning author of sixteen books and chapbooks of poetry. She founded and continues to produce “The Poet and the Poem” for public radio, celebrating thirty-seven years on-air, and now recorded at the Library of Congress.
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