Louis Gallo Knihy

Art Deco Lung is, in effect, a history of America from the late nineteenth century to the latter half of the twentieth as told from the point of view of artist Maxfied Parrish, famous in the early twentieth for his dreamy, luminous paintings. It takes into account the personal history of Parrish, from his confinement at a tuberculosis sanatorium in his early years to his old age in the early 1960s, as recorded in his (largely fictional) secret notebooks. However, the history of science, politics and art recounted are historical facts. www.WapshottPress.org

"Louis Gallo's poems are always beautifully crafted yet accessible. They are savvy yet heartfelt, ironic but wistfully so."-Gail Howard, poetry editor, Thema Magazine "A writer of fiction (much of it hilarious) and essays both scholarly and personal (often the product of deep study), as well as a teacher who has opened the minds of generations of students, Louis Gallo is a poet of many dimensions..."-Ralph Adamo, editor The Xavier Review, author of Ever "...But reliant as he is on such colossi of often abstract, complex ideas, his poems first and foremost are always anchored with keen wit in the grit and gristle of a living world, one Gallo clearly finds both intoxicating and erotic..."-Randall R. Freisinger, author of Plato's Breath, winner of the May Swenson Poetry Prize, Utah State University Press Louis Gallo is the founding editor of the now-defunct journals, The Barataria Review and Books: A New Orleans Review. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize several times. He is the recipient of a NEA grant for fiction. He teaches at Radford University in Radford, Virginia.