Joseph Fasano is the bestselling author of The Magic Words (Penguin Random House). His novels and books of poetry include The Swallows of Lunetto, The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing, Fugue for Other Hands, and the forthcoming The Last Song of the World (BOA Editions). His honors include the Cider Press Review Book Award and the Rattle Poetry Prize. His work has been translated into over a dozen languages and widely anthologized, most recently in The Forward Book of Poetry (Faber and Faber).