The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is pleased to present the latest work by Corrado Paina, Changing Residence New and Selected Poems.
POETRY READING AND BOOK PRESENTATION
Changing Residence
New and Selected Poems
by
Corrado Paina
Thursday, January 19, 2023 | 6:30PM EST
Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto
496 Huron Street
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Changing Residence documents the conflicts and resolutions of a restless writer who has spent a lifetime travelling the world to document what he finds there. Michael Redhill has called Paina’s work “a celebration of homelands old and new,” but it is also a passionate, sometimes angry, social critique of the very concept of a ‘homeland.’ Changing Residence gathers in one place the trajectory of an artist who has remained curious, committed, and engaged with whatever ‘home’ he happens to land in.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CORRADO PAINA lives and writes in Toronto. He is published in Canada by Mansfield Press: Hoarse Legend (2000), The Dowry of Education (2004), The Alphabet of the Traveler (2006), Souls in Plain Clothes (2008), and Cinematic Taxi (2014). He was an editor of College Street — Little Italy Toronto’s Renaissance Strip, a finalist for the Toronto Heritage Award. In Italy, he has published a collection of short stories entitled di corsa (Monteleone/Mapograph — Vibo Valentia), the novel tra Rothko e tre finestre (Ibiskos), the collections of poetry tempo rubato (Atelier 14 — Milano) darsena inquinata (Moderata durant — Latina), l’alfabeto del viaggiatore (Silvio Editrice) and Abecedario (with etchings by Sandro Martini, printed by Paolo Nava). A Toast to Illness (Quattro Books), published prior to Changing Residence, was also published in Italian (Brindisi alla malattia) by Società Editrice Fiorentina.
