Two from The Fatherlands

IIX She is a woman of tattered happenings. From province to province, she goes, talking and taking always the road that curves under the hand of god, as she is known to say. On her face, the wind is a quiet pretense, as if the air soft against her flesh in truth signifies a single [...]

The Fatherlands

The Fatherlands (Monkey Puzzle Press 2014) Trocchia offers a series of prose poems and short fictions on the mystery of origins and the varieties of estrangement. (out of print) "Like de Chirico’s barren landscapes, which are populated mainly by classical sculptures and other antiquities, the weight of the past—the metaphorical marble busts and architectural remnants [...]