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Robert Viscusi
Robert Viscusi, the author of
"The Three Rules of IAWA," has published the novel Astoria
(Guernica Editions, American Book Award 1996) and the performance
poem An Oration upon the Most Recent Death of Christopher Columbus
(VIA Folios). He has published numerous essays in books and
journals on Italian American literature and culture, among them
"Breaking the Silence: Strategic Imperatives for Italian
American Culture," which appeared in the first number of VIA:
Voices in Italian Americana and became a manifesto for IAWA.
Viscusi has been a fellow of the National Endowment for the
Humanities and of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute. He
is Broeklundian Professor and executive officer of the Ethyle R.
Wolfe Institute for the Humanities at Brooklyn College, as well as
president of the Italian American Writers Association. His most
recent works are a collection of poems entitled A New Geography of
Time (Guernica Editions 2004), and a critical history entitled
Buried Caesars, and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing
(State University of New York, 2006). |