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Few, if any, modern poets have stood up against the wave of decay and mediocrity that has inculcated modern culture. For Sanfilip, poetry's lack of importance to modern culture is indicative of a deeper trauma at work. In Poetry in the Age Impurity, he spells out the end game of our culture's long refusal to face true existence and exposes the false mirror modern society has created for itself. In Sanfilip's view, the death of poetic conscious...

In this compelling and groundbreaking collection of prose and poetry, Thomas Sanfilip reveals the tenuous, but often fragmented connection between the ancient past and the modern present. Whether meditating over the city of Rome from a convent roof or walking the empty ruins of the ancient Greek city of Selinous in Sicily, for Sanfilip these are no routine experiences, but profound journeys into all they evoke. What he realizes is a remarkable...

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A rare display of poetic mastery and stylistic brilliance, this new collection of poetry by Thomas Sanfilip is a unique work of remarkable emotional intensity and spiritual courage that in many ways defies categorization. Reminiscent of the fragmented elegies of the ancient Greeks, Last Poems is a riveting monody to the last days of a family in physical and spiritual decline. Shifting between dialogue with his own conscience and inner monologu...