Bicycle Thieves, livre ebook

'A masterwork from one of Canada s most important poets Referencing the post-war neorealist film by Vittorio De Sica, Mary di Michele s Bicycle Thieves commemorates her Italian past and her life in Canada through elegy and acts of translation of text and of self. The collection opens with a kind of hymn to life on the planet, sung from the peak of that urban island, Montreal an attempt to see beyond death. The book moves into a sequence of poems described by Sharon Thesen as the poet envisioning the passage of time under the full and waning moon of Mount Royal s beacon cross, recalling her Italian immigrant parents in Toronto and her current life in Montreal [. . .] a sort of Decameron. Thesen s description is apt for the collection as a whole, which moves into the poet s autobiography in search of catharsis through literature and pays tributes to poets who have been part of the literary landscape di Michele now inhabits.