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Michael Brennan

Michael Brennan

Michael Brennan is a writer, editor, and a publisher. His books include Unanimous Night (Salt, 2008) Autoethnographic (Giramondo, 2012), and the earth here (ASM, 2018). His work has been translated and published in Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Italian, French and Spanish. Since 1999, he has run Vagabond Press (www.vagabondpress.net) and since 2004 edited the Australian pages of Poetry International.

Michael Brennan reviews 'The Fireflies of Autumn: And other tales of San Ginese' by Moreno Giovannoni

August 2018, no. 403 26 July 2018
Moreno Giovannoni’s collection of tales – populous and baggy, earthy and engrossing – offers not a history but the lifeblood, the living memory, of a small town in northern Italy called San Ginese, or more specifically a hamlet in its shadow called Villora. Villora is the point of departure and return for generations of Sanginesini, and the locus of the tales told. The tales begin with Ugo, ... (read more)