W. S. Di Piero is the author of many books of poetry, essays, and translation, most recently Mickey Rourke and the Bluebird of Happiness: A Poet’s Notebooks, also published by Carnegie Mellon. He writes a regular column on art for the San Diego Reader. He lives in San Francisco.

Books by W. S. Di Piero:

Other poems on the web by W. S. Di Piero:
Forty-five poems
"Smoke"
"Raven"
Three poems
Two poems

W. S. Di Piero According to Wikipedia.