Maudlin House to Publish ‘The Swallows of Lunetto’ by Professor Joseph Fasano ‘08

By
Rebecca Pinwei Tseng
October 13, 2021
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The Swallows of Lunetto by alumnus and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Undergraduate Creative Writing Joseph Fasano '08 was recently bought by Mallory Smart at Maudlin House. The book follows a young couple who escapes from Italian fascism during the end of the Second World War. The book will be published on November 25, 2022.

Joseph Fasano is the author of four books of poetry: The Crossing (Cider Press, 2018), Fugue for Other Hands (Cider Press, 2013), which won the 2011 Cider Press Review Book Award; Inheritance (Cider Press, 2014), which has been nominated for the James Laughlin Award; and Vincent (Cider Press, 2015). Fasano’s debut novel The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing was released in 2020 by Platypus Press to high critical acclaim.

Fasano’s work has appeared in The Yale ReviewThe Southern ReviewBoston ReviewThe Times Literary SupplementTin HouseFIELDMeasure, and Passages North, among others. He has been featured in the Academy of American Poets’ poem-a-day program and on Verse Daily. Fasano is the 2008 winner of the RATTLE Poetry Prize, a finalist for the 2009 Missouri Review Editors’ Prize, and twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

The Swallows of Lunetto will be available to purchase from Maudlin House.