"In Anson County, Joseph Bathanti's generous heart turns the local into universal praises. Radiant as a welcome sun after rain, his reverence for people ...

"When an avid reader of contemporary poetry discovers a book so full of warmth and eloquent exactitude, she is grateful and excited to read more by the ...

"In his title poem, Joseph Bathanti writes that 'Even a mincing moon off cotton will yield/light enough to walk by.' There is something of pale moonlight ...

Emanating from a now-vanished Little Italy in Pittsburgh, this bilingual poetry collection summons back to life a "rough and raw" American landscape ...

Light at the Seam, a new collection from North Carolina poet Joseph Bathanti, is an exploration of mountaintop removal in southern Appalachian coal ...

In The 13th Sunday after Pentecost, Joseph Bathanti offers poems that delve deep into a life reimagined through a mythologized past. Moving from his childhood ...

Joseph Bathanti's THE ACT OF CONTRITION ' OTHER STORIES, a series of linked stories and one novella, continues the adventures of Fritz Sweeney and his ...