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Books by Joseph Bathanti
  | | Half of What I Say Is Meaningless Essays by Joseph Bathanti Hardcover, 172 Pages, Published 2014 by Mercer University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-88146-473-3, ISBN: 0-88146-473-2 "HALF OF WHAT I SAY IS MEANINGLESS is a series of memoirs, set by turns in Joseph Bathanti's hometown of Pittsburgh as well as in his ultimate home in North Carolina where he landed in 1976 as a VISTA Volunteer assigned to the North Carolina Department of Correction. Though these essays are not queued chronologically, they form a seamless chronicle of contemplation on the indelible stamp of home, family, ancestry, and spirituality, regar ..." |
 | | The 13th Sunday after Pentecost Poems (Voices of the South) by Joseph Bathanti Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2016 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-6461-7, ISBN: 0-8071-6461-5 "In The 13th Sunday after Pentecost, Joseph Bathanti offers poems that delve deep into a life reimagined through a mythologized past. Moving from his childhood to the present, weaving through the Italian immigrant streets of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to his parochial school, from the ballpark to church and home again, these contemplative poems present a situation unique to the poet but familiar to us all. As Bathanti recalls the joys, st ..." |
 | | Brothers Like These by Joseph Bathanti 91 Pages, Published 2017 by St. Andrews University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9981949-2-9, ISBN: 0-9981949-2-1 "A powerful account of Vietnam War Veterans recounting in prose and poetry their experiences before, during, and after the Vietnam War." |
 | | Concertina Poems by Joseph Bathanti Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2013 by Mercer University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-88146-470-2, ISBN: 0-88146-470-8 "In 1976, Joseph Bathanti left his home in Pittsburgh for a fourteen-month sojourn as a VISTA Volunteer with the North Carolina Department of Correction.His new volume of poems, CONCERTINA,recounts in lyrical sweep his entry into the surreal, brutal, and often terrifyingly beautiful netherworld of convicts and their keepers. It is a world with one foot still firmly planted in the old chain gang, the other venturing beyond the manacles of ..." |
 | | Land of Amnesia Poetry by Joseph Bathanti Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2009 by Press 53 ISBN-13: 978-0-9816280-7-3, ISBN: 0-9816280-7-9 "The author has his rhetorical reasons to call this masterful book Land of Amnesia, but in fact that author forgets nothing. .... The delicious, full-throated lyricism of this volume would alone be enough to recommend it." |
 | | East Liberty(Reprint) (Non Series) by Joseph Bathanti, Fred Gardaphe Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2016 by University Of South Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61117-642-1, ISBN: 1-61117-642-5 "East Liberty is a poetic, passionate coming-of-age novel spanning 1955 to 1963, set in an Italian-American neighborhood in Pittsburgh. Roberto (Bobby) Renzo, the novel's fatherless narrator and main character, lives with Francene Renzo, his beautiful, mysterious, and unconventional mother who gave birth to him out of wedlock. Together the two habitually watch vintage Hollywood movies on TV. Orbiting Bobby and Francene are the Catholic C ..." |
 | | Restoring Sacred Art(1st Edition) by Joseph Bathanti Paperback, 126 Pages, Published 2010 by Star Cloud Press ISBN-13: 978-1-932842-40-1, ISBN: 1-932842-40-3 ""Joseph Bathanti is a strong, eloquent voice in American poetry. His poems emanate from deep within himself and his culture, a world of rich ethnic ties and associations. I love the luminous details that he uncovers, again and again, like holy mysteries. His poems, which often deal - overtly and covertly - with religious themes, are restorative. These are, indeed, poems of restoration. Bathanti returns often to the well of memory, and h ..." |
 | | The High Heart(1st Edition) (Lynx House Book) by Joseph Bathanti Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2007 by Carnegie Mellon University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59766-033-4, ISBN: 1-59766-033-7 "The beautiful linked stories in Joseph Bathanti's award-winning collection, The High Heart, bring us an ensemble of heartbreakingly vivid characters, headed by the young Fritz Sweeny and his volatile and eccentric parents, all of them caught in a weir of desperation, frustration, hilarity, confusion, and deep affection. The setting is Pittsburgh in the sixties and seventies, when the city still lay in the trough of industrial collapse, ..." |
 | | Anson County (Paperback) by Joseph Bathanti Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2013 by Press 53 ISBN-13: 978-1-935708-81-0, ISBN: 1-935708-81-3 ""In Anson County, Joseph Bathanti's generous heart turns the local into universal praises." |
 | | This Metal by Joseph Bathanti Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2012 by Press 53 ISBN-13: 978-1-935708-28-5, ISBN: 1-935708-28-7 ""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 the author. This was my first experience of reading Joseph Bathanti's fourth book of poems, This Metal. I felt humbled by reading a poet whose voice was strong, but I was simultaneously dazzled by a vocabulary rich in metaphor and inflected by the language of faith and place." From the Intro ..." |
 | | Crossing the Rift North Carolina Poets on 9/11 and Its Aftermath by Joseph Bathanti, David Potorti Softcover, 220 Pages, Published 2021 by Press 53 ISBN-13: 978-1-950413-37-9, ISBN: 1-950413-37-3 "Crossing the Rift: North Carolina Poets on 9/11 & Its Aftermath illuminates not only what happened that day, but what continues to challenge us twenty years later: Islamophobia, the vilification of refugees and asylum-seekers, nationalism, ..." |
 | | The Life of the World to Come (Non Series) by Joseph Bathanti Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2014 by University Of South Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61117-453-3, ISBN: 1-61117-453-8 "In a weaving together of contradictory realms―past and present, rustbelt city and rural/urban South, old-world Catholicism and backwoods Protestantism―Joseph Bathanti draws readers into the 1970s as protagonist George Dolce faces major upheaval in The Life of the World to Come.George aspires to leave his blue collar, Catholic neighborhood of East Liberty in Pittsburgh. He is on the cusp of graduation from college and headed for law scho ..." |
 | | Coventry(1st Edition) by Joseph Bathanti Hardcover, 261 Pages, Published 2006 by Novello Festival Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9760963-7-5, ISBN: 0-9760963-7-4 "Despite promises to his pregnant wife and dead mother never to follow in the footsteps of his father, Calvin Gaddy takes a job at Coventry Prison in the North Carolina Piedmont. He soon finds himself snared in the literal prison of Coventry-and in a cell of his own making. He watches as his father, Mac, a retired iron-willed, old-school chain gang guard, descends into madness. And when Calvin unwittingly traffics in contraband on the pr ..." |
 | | East Liberty(1st Edition) by Joseph Bathanti Hardcover, 207 Pages, Published 2001 by Banks Channel Books ISBN-13: 978-1-889199-08-5, ISBN: 1-889199-08-7 "Winner of the Carolina Novel Award and a finalist for the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, this is the story of Bobby Renzo, growing up in the late '50s and early '60s in the marginal East Liberty section of Pittsburgh, in the care of a beautiful, unmarried mother who raises questions and eyebrows among the devoutly Catholic, Italian-American residents." |
 | | Anson County Poems by Joseph Bathanti Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2005 by Parkway Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-933251-11-0, ISBN: 1-933251-11-5 "Bathanti is the author of four books of poetry: Communion Partners, Anson County, The Feast of All Saints, and This Metal. His first novel, East Liberty, won the 2001 Carolina Novel Award." |
 | | Anson County. [Paperback] by Joseph. Bathanti Paperback, Published 1989 by Williams & Simpson ISBN-13: 978-0-932705-08-2, ISBN: 0-932705-08-1 |
 | | This Metal(1st Edition) by Editor-Joseph Bathanti, Auman Dan Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 1996 by Saint Andrews Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-879934-30-6, ISBN: 1-879934-30-2 |
 | | The Anthology of Black Mountain College Poetry by Blake Hobby, Alessandro Porco, Joseph Bathanti 288 Pages, Published 2022 by Unc Press Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-4115-7, ISBN: 1-4696-4115-1 "Many years in the making, this book paints the clearest picture of the poetry and poets of Black Mountain College yet." |
 | | The Anthology of Black Mountain College Poetry by Blake Hobby, Alessandro Porco, Joseph Bathanti 288 Pages, Published 2022 ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-4113-3, ISBN: 1-4696-4113-5 "Many years in the making, this book paints the clearest picture of the poetry and poets of Black Mountain College yet." |
 | | East Liberty A Novel by Joseph Bathanti 112 Pages, Published 2016 by Univ Of South Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61117-643-8, ISBN: 1-61117-643-3 "Susan Heyward in Snows of Kilimanjaro who takes all that drunken guff from Gregory Peck, though Hattie is much, much older than Heyward. It makes Francene furious. “I'd give him 'You'll make yourself sick.' The minute he passed out, I'd pulverize him with the iron.” “Get out,” Cooney is screaming. “You get your goddam rags and leave my house, you streetwalking, straphanging slut.” We hear slamming and stomping, then the clop of Coo ..." |
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