Forget-Sadness-Grass

Antony Di Nardo delves into mortality, memory, and the cycles of loss and discovery with a sublime precision that relies on the sonic and visual play of language. His poetry surprises as much as it illuminates.
The title for Di Nardo’ s sixth collection comes from the Chinese ideogram for daylily, that tawny orange blossom, which bursts its borders in the summer and, in this book, finds its way into poetry that blurs the line between mysticism and lyricism.

ANTONY DI NARDO is the author of five previous collections of poetry. His work has been translated into several languages and appears widely in journals and anthologies both in Canada and internationally. He has won Exile’ s Gwendolyn MacEwen Prize for Best Suite of Poems, a work which was also nominated for a National Magazine Award, and was recently a finalist for the CBC Poetry Prize. He was born in Montreal. Visit Antony’ s website at www.antonydinardo.com.