Gianluca Avanzato

City of the Hills Gianluca Avanzato

How do we remember a place we once called home? And how do we forget it? In City of the Hills, Oneonta native Gianluca Avanzato locates places from his hometown in upstate New York and explores a variety of tensions associated with home: obedience and independence; adventure and boredom; loneliness and community. Steeped in Avanzato's personal experiences, this concise but dynamic collection invites the reader to reflect on his or her own understandings of home and relive personal experiences-from ding-dong ditching to first love. Most importantly, these poems offer space for some kind of reconciliation between past and future, hope and hopelessness, remembering and forgetting.