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A Novel
In a weaving together of contradictory realmsโpast and present, rustbelt city and rural/urban South, old-world Catholicism and backwoods Protestanti...
A fatherless boy is conflicted by his Catholic upbringing and his dreams in this coming-of-age novel East Liberty is a poetic, passionate coming-of-ag...
Poems
Light at the Seam, a new collection from North Carolina poet Joseph Bathanti, is an exploration of mountaintop removal in southern Appalachian coal co...
In The 13th Sunday after Pentecost, Joseph Bathanti offers poems that delve deep into a life reimagined through a mythologized past. Moving from his c...
"When an avid reader of contemporary poetry discovers a book so full of warmth and eloquent exactitude, she is grateful and excited to read more by th...
Poetry by Joseph Bathanti, first published by St. Andrews Press in June 1996....
Poetry
"In his title poem, Joseph Bathanti writes that 'Even a mincing moon off cotton will yield/light enough to walk by.' There is something of pale moonli...
St. Andrews Review and This Metal
Twelve Poems, by Joseph Bathanti, is the 8th issue in a special series of digital and print chapbooks to honor the poets and writers who have publishe...
Ths is a series of memoirs, set by turns in Joseph Bathanti's hometown of Pittsburgh and in his ultimate home in North Carolina where he landed in 197...
Joseph Bathanti, born and raised in Pittsburgh, teaches Creative Writing at Appalachian State University. Bathanti is the author of four books of poet...
And Other Poems
Emanating from a now-vanished Little Italy in Pittsburgh, this bilingual poetry collection summons back to life a "rough and raw" American landscape o...
In 1976, Joseph Bathanti left his home in Pittsburgh for a fourteen month sojourn as a VISTA Volunteer with the North Carolina Department of Correctio...
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Bathanti's latest is a collection of linked stories and a novella that further explore the life of the fictional Fritz Sweeney....
A powerful account of Vietnam War Veterans recounting in prose and poetry their experiences before, during, and after the Vietnam War....
: a Journal of Catholic Poetry
New poems, translations, interviews, and book reviews in a yearly literary journal for Catholic Poetry....