The Crossing Author|Dan Conaway Esquire and the Midwest Book Awards

and the Midwest Book Awards in the Inspirational and Family/Parenting categories

The Castaways and The Strangeloves were also opening acts

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This is her first book of poems

and discovers a love that alters the course of her life

The Crossing Author|Dan Conaway Esquire and the Midwest Book AwardsJoseph Fasano's much anticipated fourth book, The Crossing, is his most intimate yet. By turns lamentation and consolation, it confronts grief and gain, always trying, as the Polish poet Adam Zagajewski wrote, "to praise the mutilated world." "Immensity will only dare to come to you," one poem tells us, "when surrender is ready in your hands." Here are poems that know that to have a self is to be both a witness to history and responsible for it.