Overnight Author:Paul Violi Overnight is Paul Violi's eleventh book of poems. On receiving the Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he was cited for "bringing the sharpness and surprise of the avant-garde to a poetry that continually impresses by its honesty, its sincerity, and its clarity. One is taken through the solidest and strongest emotional l... more »andscapes on a remarkable new road." From reviews of Paul Violi's poetry: "His vision is an essentially tragic one, but one that is constantly goosed by a riotous sense of the absurd." -The Bloomsbury Review "Deft, magical, filled with light, Violi's poetry is pure pleasure. He uses form with a mock-seriousness that would put most formalists to shame. These are poems of one who seems to love life, despite its abundant absurdities, and to love poetry." -American Book Review« less