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Peter Covino reads from Cut Off the Ears of Winter
Peter Covino’s poetry can be described as confessional surrealism, such are the heightened psychological landscapes he re-imagines, whether he is exploring issues of identity politics, ethnicity, art, or sexual abuse. Covino’s work restlessly integrates disparate realities based on his training as a social worker in New York City and his formal education in Italy and the States.
“These poems are acts of discovery. They deal with tough, seamy, risky–what academics now call ‘transgressive’– subject matter. There’s a strangely exhilarating desperation in most of these poems that’s compelling. This poet uses words as a medium, as materials, not as descriptive or narrative vehicles. I also like the angular, unsettling humor threaded into nearly every poem.”
— W. S. Di Piero