"Dirge and Apologia," by Joseph Fasano, Fugue for Other Hands (2013)
Joseph Fasano is the author of the novel The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing (Platypus Press, 2018) and four books of poetry: The Crossing (2018), Vincent (2015), Inheritance (2014), and Fugue for Other Hands (2013). He is a professor of academic and creative writing at Manhattanville College and Columbia University, and he serves on the Editorial Board of Alice James Books. His honors include the Rattle Poetry Prize, the Cider Press Review Book Award, and a nomination for the Poets' Prize, "awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award year."






