Franco Pagnucci - is a widely published poet and educator. He was born in a mountain village in Italy and grew up in Illinois. He now he lives in the lake country of northern wisconsin.
THE BOOKS
Ben Logan, author of The Land Remembers and The Empty Meadow, says, "For me, this thematic collection of poems works beautifully. Gianfranco Pagnucci's strong, sure voice captures stories of people who wear the feeling-garments of 'living rural.' ... Pagnucci gives his people a place to live, creating in subtle ways a strong sense of place."
Out Harmsen's Way
ISBN-1-878660-10-1
This volume contains 43 lyric and short narrative poems about life in the Midwest and, specifically, rural and farm life in southwest Wisconsin. You get a strong sense of place and people, gain an understanding of their natural wisdom and humor, and come away knowing the world and yourself a little better.
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Ancient Moves
ISBN-0-929326-14-8
It is a collection of 56 lyric and short narratives poems.​
Maurice Kilwein Guevara, author of Poems of the River Spirit and Postmortem, calls Franco Pagnucci's poems in Ancient Moves, "... lyrical and observant and wise."
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David Steingass, poet and author of The Great Plains and Living Along the Line: Teaching Children to Write Poetry, talks of poems in Ancient Moves that "contain a quiet, perceptive 'local' news which defines in the way poetry never fails to do what is most important among the tribe of mankind."