Edited by Mark Lipman (Venice, CA) and Anna Lombardo (Venice, IT), with cover art by Alessandra Drigo.
Venice, CA poets: Will Alexander, Iris Berry, S.A. Griffin, Susan Hayden, Ellyn Maybe, Richard Modiano, Bill Mohr, Harry E. Northup, Pam Ward, and Gail Wronsky.
Venice, IT poets: Giovanni Luca Asmundo, Alessandra Drigo, Giacomo Falchetta, Brigidina Gentile, Fabia Ghenzovich, Alessandra Pellizzari, Adam Vaccaro, Valeria Raimondi, and Zingonia Zingone.
"These metaphysical and soul-mined transmissions are not fossils but living, breathing dispatches meant to be read aloud. As you speak each one, you experience a mutually shared circuitry between each Venice-themes of nature, nurture, outlaws and angels, love that dazzles and devours. Hopes, dreams, and rages are connected and illuminated, a lyrical dance with tension, rift, battle, and brawl. These poems offer light when a shadowed and exhausted world barely has the voice to reveal its concerns."
-Rich Ferguson, US National Beat Poet Laureate