“I was always scared going over the Burlington Skyway when my dad drove,” began a 2007 poem by Pier Giorgio Di Cicco. He passed away Dec. 22 at the age of 70 and was Toronto’s second poet laureate from 2004 to 2009. Living in a place like Toronto is an unavoidably passionate affair, for better or worse, and the poet helps us understand that. “A citizenry is incited to action by the eros of mutual care, by having a common object of love — their city. For Di Cicco, these collective ideals and vision is what makes Toronto beautiful, rather than the stuff already built.

Source: thestar February 07, 2020 16:52 UTC