The Dresser is using the following approach for reviewing in the hope that others will join in to do a more extended review. In any case, the Dresser (a.k.a. Karren Alenier) wrote a blurb for this book.
Title: Fables from Italy and Beyond
Authors: Grace Cavalieri & Geoffrey Himes
Publisher: Bordighera Press
Copyright: 2025
Number of Pages: 100
Blurbs by: John Doe, Sabine Pascarelli, Karren LaLonde Alenier, Mike Maggio
Key Descriptors: Italy, love, music, folktales, magic
First Sentence: When a harmonica and a violin play/ the same melody a fifth apart,/ one soaks into the other. (from “The Third Voice”)
Last Sentence: She found love’s splendor in December/ when ice twigs captured morning light. (from “The Story Without End”)
Comment: This is a collaboration between two super stars in the publishing world. Grace Cavalieri’s poetry has been published in book form too many times to count while she continues to promote other poets through her public audio platform from the Library of Congress “The Poet and the Poem.” Geoffrey Himes is a well-known journalist writing for major newspapers like the Washington Post, NY Times, and Rolling Stone. He has written books on such music figures as Bruce Springsteen and Emmylou Harris. His poetry has been published in such publications as Best American Poetry and Gargoyle.
Riding “the cannon ball of melody”, Grace Cavalieri and Geoffrey Himes create together Fables from Italy and Beyond. It’s a noisy, rollicking, blasphemous telling of old and new tales in a form not exactly poetry, not exactly prose. Take this thought-provoking work along as you journey through the dark woods of your life.
