The Walk to Cefalù
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Moving and life-affirming, The Walk to Cefalù moves the reader through the family history that Lynne Viti imagines, embellishes, or even invents out of whole cloth, and into young adulthood and coming of age. Striving for universality, Viti creates a durable sense of a speaker limited by an outside force that she constantly has to find ways around, or through, to contentment and ease. Even when limited by separation or loss, her walk inspires us to reach higher.
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Reviews
"In the very first poem of The Walk to Cefalù, Lynne Viti both recollects her childhood and announces her MO: 'Beneath each tale, I sensed another/-a truer-story, an alternative text/a painful experience smoothed over.' Telling that 'alternative' story behind the story-the tender elegy beneath the smoothed over surface-'that's my job.' In these engaging, intelligent, and touching poems, Viti fulfills her admirable intentions."
-Lloyd Schwartz, author of Who's on First?: New and Selected Poems
"Viti's poems are beautiful, eloquent, and they speak about a life lived. A life examined. Her memories take us on a journey."
-Gloria Mindock, author of Ash
"Viti mines rich veins of memory and experience to bring us vivid moments, both recent and past, with the wisdom and grace of a poet who has navigated-and survived-this wild, dangerous, and beautiful world."
-Matt Hohner, author of Thresholds and Other Poems
"Lynne Viti honors life. . . . This is a book 'to help us map/the deepest, most human things.'"
-J.D. Scrimgeour, author of Lifting the Turtle
