Dennis Barone's previous books from Spuyten Duyvil are God's Whisper, a novella, and Poets' Poets: A Renaissance of Words, an anthology of essays by thirty-six contemporary poets on under-appreciated voices of the past. Barone has written on subjects ranging from Paul Auster to Italian Protestants. He has edited collections such as New Hungers for Old: One-Hundred Years of Italian-American Poetry and Garnet Poems: An Anthology of Connecticut Poetry Since 1776. He is the author of America / Trattabili, a study of Italian American narrative, and Far-Dale: New and Selected Poems, among other books. He lives in Connecticut.