On Patricia Fargnoli's "Duties of the Spirit"
by Janet McCann - “The question that he asks in all but words,” says Robert Frost of his Oven Bird, “is what to make of a diminished thing.” The poems of Pat Fargnoli’s Duties of the Spirit ask this question in the most carefully chosen words, longing, glimmering words that speak to readers of all ages of what it is like to grow old and of the kind of prisons age makes and windows it opens. <READ MORE>

A Note on Patricia Fargnoli's Work by Ilya Kaminsky-
With majority of poets of her generation being employed as college professors, Patricia Fargnoli’s position of an ageing woman writing about life at the near poverty-level in America, is unique and special. Let me correct myself right away: it is special, first of all, not for its subjects but for the lyricism and passion of its language. <READ MORE>

Small Wisdoms, Large Spirit: Patricia Fargnoli's Duties of the Spirit
by Edward Byrne <READ REVIEW>