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Parallel Press Publishes This Small Breathing Coincidence by Paul Terranova
MADISON, Wis. – This Small Breathing Coincidence by Paul Terranova is the newest poetry chapbook published by Parallel Press. Through his poetry, Terranova marvels at the wonders of fatherhood, at the "small / breathing coincidence of dust and / love asleep on my chest in the spinning / infinity of our living room." His work also celebrates the little moments found in everyday things: fellow subway riders; early morning trains; and the pre-dawn "moment the moon lay itself down and opened its crescent arms to the gods."
Paul Terranova lives with his wife and two sons in Madison, Wisconsin, where he works as a community center director. He has worked as a youth organizer with immigrant youth; a tenant organizer in low-income housing; a refugee job developer; a public action organizer with the United Farm Workers of America; a volunteer with children living on the streets of Cape Town, South Africa; as well as at most every job one could hold behind a counter.
He earned his master's degree in adult education and community development at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto and his bachelor's degree in psychology at the University of Illinois. He studied poetry with Michael Van Walleghen at the University of Illinois, and his poems have appeared in Wisconsin People & Ideas (formerly Wisconsin Academy Review). This is his first chapbook.
To order or learn more about This Small Breathing Coincidence, and other Parallel Press publications, visit the website: parallelpress.library.wisc.edu.
