Joseph Fasano, Author at FemAsia Magazine

Joseph Fasano

Joseph Fasano is a poet, novelist, songwriter, and teacher. His new books are The Magic Words (TarcherPerigee, 2024) and The Last Song of the World (BOA Editions, 2024). His work has been widely translated and anthologized, most recently in The Forward Book of Poetry (Faber and Faber). He runs the Daily Poetry Thread on Twitter/X at @Joseph_Fasano_.

Fictional Arts

To Myself After They Brought Me Back to Life

It happens now your breath is still your own breath, your sorrow works its secret little work in you, your heart is still a stumbling fawn, in autumn. I tell you it is not too late to waken. Someone has asked

by Joseph Fasano

Fictional Arts

Echoes from Unforgotten Darkness- Three Poems

Eve Speaks to Humanity I didn’t raise you like this. What is that on your fist? Mud? It’s not mud. Where have you been? Where did you get all that gold? You smell like someone else’s daughter. You know what they say

by Joseph Fasano

Fictional Arts

After Love

Now that you have lost another version of you, walk out through the new moon in the spruces and lie down in the deep of the clearing. Listen: they are still here, the wild things, migrations moving on again from

by Joseph Fasano

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Joseph Fasano

To Myself After They Brought Me Back to Life

Echoes from Unforgotten Darkness- Three Poems

After Love