Emanuel Carnevali (December 4, 1897 - January 11, 1942 / Italy)

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The best early Italian-American poetry deals with the excitement and disillusionment of life in this "new-found land." The immigrant Emanuel Carnevali (1897-1942) became the first Italian writer to make a significant, if short-lived, impact on modern American poetry. Supporting himself in Greenwich Village by shoveling snow and washing dishes, Carnevali enjoyed a special celebrity among populist Modernist poets like William Carlos Williams and Carl Sandburg. He published only one book, Tales of a Hurried Man (1925), but it established him in avant-garde circles.

Harriet Monroe, the founding editor of Poetry, eventually brought him out to Chicago to work on her magazine, but he ... more »

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