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Paying It Forward in Words and Deed...What a Great Book Feb 03, 2010
By Charlie Z
This mix of essays, prose, and poetry will make you cheer for winners and losers alike. It will break your heart and make you smile. The works range in length from several pages to four short but incredibly profound lines in "Memo to Job," my personal favorite. Above all else this book will compel you to examine yourself, your world, and how you live in it. The author's introduction alone is a stirring tribute to the power of "paying it forward," as we follow the odyssey of a boy who first loses his father at age 6, then his mother 3 years later when she abdicates her responsibility to the state. He becomes a ward of the court through no fault of his own, spending the next 7 years of his life in the nation's oldest large-scale orphanage whose founder, Stephen Girard, "understood deeply that he was fathered not by a single individual, but by the thousands of human interactions that constitute life itself." Girard's legacy lives on in Mr. Biondolillo, who has indeed "gone the distance" and continues to do so, making the world a better place.
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Deep and direct, a subway train to the heart Nov 08, 2009
By V Constantinopoulos
I grabbed this book as I left my house for the office thinking it would be good to read on the Underground. It's not good, it's phenomenal -- but it's not a good book to read on a subway ride. Why? Because my eyes kept welling up, that's why. Not just tears of sadness and sympathy, but also of delight and triumph against all odds. Impressions of the bag lady, the human cats on the mat, king Arthur, the boy, resonated beyond my tube journey. Biondolillo's poems are powerful, inspirational, and as deep AND direct as a subway tunnel.
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Spirit and Beat in the Blood of the Street! Nov 04, 2009
By Emerson Wickwire
Spirit and beat in the blood of the street! I just finished my second reading of this collection of poems and still couldn't put the book down. Equal parts inspirational, reflective, and instructive... and entirely satisfying. Bravo! The reviewer who commented on the Introduction alone being well worth the price of the entire book, hit the nail on the head. Biondolillo is clearly a man who has paid his dues and wrestled with many of life's key issues. Highly recommended.
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Poetry for men--and for the rest of us! Oct 11, 2009
By K. Wood
"k. wood, art lover"
I've never experienced poetry quite like this--the unique, masculine voice is evocative, lean, muscular. The collection has a strong male senseibility yet is toally accessable to women. BRAVO! FIVE STARS!
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Passionate, poignant, provocative Sep 30, 2009
By B. Woolner
The introduction alone is worth the price of the book. Not since reading "The Little Engine That Could" to my young, now middle aged, children have I found a more inspiring and self-revealing work on the dynamism of character and optimism. Mr. Biondolillo's Horratio Alger genre poetry is compelling.
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