For Father and Many Other Things by Dr. Matthew Diomede

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For Father and Many Other Things

by Dr. Matthew Diomede

$19.99, Full-length, paper

978-1-64662-495-9

2021

For Father and Many Other Things by Dr. Matthew Diomede is a poetry selection that reveals his closeness to his Italian-American family and to all of nature. His images of nature like night father and day mother are the archetypes of all people. His book is a tribute to all of life and death and the preciousness of both.

This poetry book manuscript was originally recommended by John Ashbery as an Award-Finalist in the Virginia Commonwealth University Contemporary Series .

Dr. Matthew Diomede teaches English/Writing at the University of Tampa. He has taught at the University of South Florida, St. Louis University, University of Missouri, and other universities.  He has taught literary criticism, literature, vocabulary, composition/advanced writing, creative writing and other courses. His undergraduate degree is from Fordham University where he received a track athletic scholarship. He has two masters degrees from Fordham and Long Island University. His Ph.D. in English is from St. Louis University. His revised Ph.D. dissertation on an Italian-American writer was published by Bucknell University Press: Pietro DiDonato, the Master Builder. Two chapters from this book have been reprinted in Twentieth Century Criticism (TCLC) and reproduced in Literature Resource Center. His poetry book manuscript was recommended by John Ashbery as an Award-Finalist in the Virginia Commonwealth University Contemporary Series and is now being published by Finishing Line Press. He has published over 100 poems, prose, and fiction and has received several writing awards. He is listed in A Directory of American Poets. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve for six years.