Becoming a parent changes everything. Fear and love live together. Suddenly there is a person in the world for whom you want happiness and safety, even when those two don't always coincide. Diary of a Young Father comprises forty letter-poems written by award-winning film director Edoardo Ponti to his unborn child during the forty weeks of his wife's pregnancy. These poems are gifts, lessons, slices of joy, maps for how we build a life, for how we work and learn, how we love, and how we remember.

About the Author
Edoardo Ponti is a film director who divides his time between California and Italy. A legacy of film greats-son of Sophia Loren and producer Carlo Ponti, Sr.-Edoardo has made a name for himself in the industry with numerous award-winning shorts, feature films, as well as plays and an opera. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Creative Writing. He is married to the actress Sasha Alexander, with whom he has two wonderful children. This is his first book of poetry.

Reviews
What a remarkable book this is. In Letters from a Young Father, poet and filmmaker Edoardo Ponti has given us a haunting, deeply moving and celebratory collection of poems that is truly unlike anything I know-a book of poems addressed to his unborn child that echoes both Yeats' famous poem "A Prayer for My Daughter" as well as Rainer Maria Rilke's exquisite and timeless volume, Letters to a Young Poet. . . . Letters from a Young Father is one of the most heartbreakingly beautiful books of recent years. If I were to choose just one book to give to a new father or to a new mother at the beginning of his or her journey to becoming a parent, it would be, without question, Edoardo Ponti's Letters from a Young Father. -- David St. John * from book introduction *



Book Information
ISBN 9781939096036
Author Edoardo Ponti
Format Paperback
Page Count 72
Imprint Xeno Books
Publisher Red Hen Press
Weight(grams) 91g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 5mm