Heartland Errata by Dante Di Stefano
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A love note, forged in the griefs and joys of family life, to the damaged world and to those who live in poems.
Through sonnets and unsonnets, prose poems, and formally inventive lyrics, Di Stefano explores the shifting boundaries between confessional and anticonfessional writing, drawing unity from his experience of suburban fatherhood. The book celebrates a wide constellation of artists, from Ruth Stone and Brigit Pegeen Kelly to John Coltrane, Dolly Parton, and Charles Mingus, while grounding itself in the everyday textures of a life: a child’s drawings, a whale’s song, a 1986 Mets game, an untranslated Montale poem.
Together these moments form the broken, capacious, and sincere country of the human heart.
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About The Author
Dante Di Stefano is the author of six poetry collections and a chapbook, including, most recently, the book-length poems, The Widowing Radiance (Bordighera Press, 2025) and Midwhistle (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023). His writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2018, Poem-a-Day, Prairie Schooner, The Writer’s Chronicle, and elsewhere. He has won the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, the Manchester Poetry Prize (UK), and the Thayer Fellowship in the Arts, among other awards. He co-edited the anthology Misrepresented People (NYQ Books, 2018). He teaches high school English in Endicott, NY and lives in Endwell, New York with his wife, Christina, their daughter, Luciana, their son, Dante Jr., and their goldendoodle, Sunny.
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