Fat Man Arpeggios

In The Fat Man Arpeggios, Pellegrino D'Acierno presents a ludic portrait of the Fat Man -- a metaphysical dandy and "foolosopher" -- who voices, through the lightness of arpeggios, his existential and amorous dilemmas.

Professor of Comparative Literature at Hofstra University, Pellegrino D'Acierno serves as the inaugural Queensboro Unico Distinguished Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies. His publications include F.T. Marinetti and the Freedom of Poetry (1988); The Italian American Heritage: A Companion to Literature and Arts (1998), The Signature of D'Annunzio and Other Counter-Essays on "Dagotude"(forthcoming), Thirteen Ways of Crossing the Piazza: Rome as a Cinematic City, and Strange Loops: Cinema and Architecture as Spatial-Temporal Practices (forthcoming). He is now preparing for publication a collection of his earlier poems written over three decades.