Carmine Giordano
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Lake Worth, FL
Adjunct Lecturer Palm Beach State College; Psychoanalyst; Author of seven poetry collections.
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Biography

Carmine Giordano was born in Brooklyn, New York, and has a Master’s Degree in English Literature from New York University and was a recipient of a 1993 Fulbright Award for Study in Italy. 

He is a former teacher and assistant principal from the New York City school system. He is also a nationally certified psychoanalyst and a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) and a reviewer and columnist for the NAAP Newsletter.

He is an assistant editor of the online poetry magazine Abalone Moon and the author of seven poetry collections: The Courage of Flowers, The Hero’s Journey, Still Sing, The Habit of Spring, Collected Poems 2020, Saving Daylight, and Blue Jay and Found Objects.

His poetry has appeared in The South Hampton Journal, The River Poets Journal, Abalone Moon, Poets of the Palm Beaches Anthology, Perspectives, Eunoia Review, Belletrist, and Etc:A Review of General Semantics. Translations of his poems have appeared in Correnti Incrociate Editor English/Italian Anthology (2021 Mosaique Press) and in a Fall 2022 release of the Romanian Curenți La Rascruce (2022 Mosaique Prtess). He has written the preface to an Italian translation of the poetry of the Welsh poet, John Eliot, Canzoni Del Venerdi Sera (Italian/English 2020 Mosaique Press) which also appeared in the December 2020 edition of the Wales Art Review.

He is the author of several plays: Unaccommodated Man,  The Final Word,  Invective (or A Boil in Your Armpit).

Mr. Giordano has spent most of his life teaching writing and literature in New York, Georgia and Florida where he is an adjunct lecturer at Palm Beach State College, conducts frequent readings and poetry workshops at West Palm Beach libraries and lives in happy retirement with his wife Ronnie.

Agent Information

Open to working with literary agents.

Plays

The Final Word
by Carmine Giordano

On Thanksgiving, the traditional American family holiday, a married couple confront their unspoken feelings, mutual blame and recriminations about not having children.

Cast:
1. JACK DE LORENZO. Physical: 55. 5’10. Medium build, brown hair, brown eyes. Italianate features, Roman nose, muscular. Social: Practicing psychoanalyst, Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, graduate of a Freudian psychoanalytic institute, non-practicing nominal Catholic, married ten years to a Jewish woman, Jill. Emotional: Intensely analytical, chronically searching for the motivation behind speech and action, good sense of humor, loving, stoic in most responses. 2. JILL DE LORENZO Physical: 47. 5’6. Well-proportioned, slightly overweight, brown hair, brown eyes, beautiful features, traditional secular Jewish background Social: MS in Educational Administration, runs work-study program for New York City, studied psychoanalysis for a period, had brief practice Emotional: Practical, rational, compassionate, melancholy at times
Unaccommodated Man
by Carmine Giordano

While convalescing in his son-in-law and daughter's home, Murray Putterman confronts gentile other-world spiritualism and transcendence with the practicality of Jewish values and humanism.

Cast:
JOE AMALFITANO. Physical: 55. 5’10. Medium build, wavy brown hair, brown eyes, Italianate features, Roman nose, muscular. Social: PhD in English Literature, retired college professor, ex-Trappist monk, non-practicing nominal Catholic, married to a Jewish woman, Becky, a New York City Board of Ed administrator. Writing a novel based on his early and current experiences. Emotional: Driven by early religious implants, philosophical rather than practical, lives more in his head than in his current surroundings, very contradictory, mercurial, good-natured, lov-ing, short-fused, passive, discontented MURRAY PUTTERMAN. Physical: 86. 5’ 8. Stocky, about 180 pounds, thinning white hair, merry brown eyes, al-ways a little smile, needs cane, problematic knee, recuperating from heart attack, on medication, very constipated. Social: Emigrated with mother to USA from Poland in 1925, harsh father, one year of col-lege, almost CPA, salesman for clothiers, WWII veteran, saw action in Europe, Ann his wife of 40 years dead several years, father of Becky, Joe’s wife. Emotional: High family values, doesn’t suffer fools gladly, a man’s man, enjoys women (blondes), sensitive to how he’s viewed by others, contradicts values when human necessity is more demanding, optimistic, encapsulates points of wisdom with Yiddish/Hebrew expressions, very constipated from medications and appreciative of a good bowel movement
Invective (or A Boil in Your Armpit)
by Carmine Giordano

    The play consists of a series of traditional Yiddish invectives--some direct, some in translated English--comprising single words, phrases, or sentences.  The interpretive subtext should reveal intra-group annoyances and intolerance, then an about-face shift and uniting of forces in the face of outside-group hostility, followed by a final reversion to universal everyday man-to-man competition and intolerance: all representing a show-and-tell encapsulation of post-Diaspora Jewish life and history in alien cultures.

Cast:
YUSEF. A Chassidic senior-- bearded, wearing a black yarmulke, the traditional gartel, tzitzis and karpota and carrying a prayer book while reading and davening. HERB. A Reformed Jewish senior--wearing a blue yarmulke, dressed casually and wearing a Star of David on a gold neck chain. A MAN. An anonymous non-Jewish everyman with certain elitist tendencies and ethnic biases.

Successes

Carmine was a recipient of a Fulbright Award for Study in Italy, 1993.

His poetry has appeared in:

The South Hampton Journal, The River Poets Journal, Abalone Moon, Poets of the Palm Beaches Anthology, Perspectives, Eunoia Review, Belletrist, and Etc:A Review of General Semantics.

Translations of his poems have appeared in Correnti Incrociate Editor English/Italian Anthology (2021 Mosaique Press) and in a Fall 2022 release of the Romanian Curenți La Rascruce (2022 Mosaique Prtess).

He has written the preface to an Italian translation of the poetry of the Welsh poet, John Eliot, Canzoni Del Venerdi Sera (Italian/English 2020 Mosaique Press) which also appeared in the December 2020 edition of the Wales Art Review.

Carmine is a nationally certified psychoanalyst, a graduate of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP) and member of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, (NAAP).  

His essays have appeared in the quarterly newsletter of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP). Essays: Louise Glück, Poetry As Revenge; A General Semantics Perspective on Language and Reality: Implications for Therapy; Recommendations for Psychoanalytic Technique: Inscape, Instress, Negative Capability and Listening with the Third Ear; Psychoanalysis and Poetry: In Search of Hidden Chambers.