Works by
Vittoria Repetto
(Poet)

Poetry

• Not Just A Personal Ad (2006)
  Showcasing a subtle poet who has preserved her working-class sensibility and taste for the language of daily life while maintaining an acute ear for literary echoes, this powerful collection explores the life of a lesbian Italian American woman. From the first poem where she places her grandparents young and in love right in front of the reader, to "she's doing the dishes" where a tongue-in-cheek delivery eroticizes a simple household chore, the poet casts an unapologetically direct and witty eye on life's complexity and paints unforgettable moments within unforgettable scenes.

• Head for the Van Wyck (1994)
  Vittoria Pepetto practices vision as action. Her poems change our way of seeing what they show us, sometimes abruptly, always directly. They reconstruct categories (Italian American, Lesbian, Cabbie, language) from the inside out. Because they see even the tiniest details with this new angle of vision, Repetto's poems give us unforgettable scenes, unforgettable moments.

Other

• Phil Honey, It's Time We Settled Down (1982) by Maureen, editor; Kushner, Bill; Nostrand, Jennifer; , Vittoria Repetto, et al. Owen