Fracas Author:Paul Violi Poetry. "Even the humble hoe/ if stepped on the right way/ --Stars in daylight!// ...Nail... thumbnail./ No wonder the hammer/ often gets confused" ("I.Q."). Paul Violi is the author of LIKEWISE, which William Corbett of the Harvard Book Review called "a knockout," and THE CURIOUS BUILDER. He has been awarded two poetry fellowships from the... more » National Endowment for the Arts, and he is currently on the faculty of New York University.« less