Red Hook. Confessions of a Brooklyn Eaglet: 1939-1955
Bibliographic record
Abstract
the total eclipse of the moon and spits watermelon seeds at the stars.The Broken World w^'zs published with the support of the Canadian Council for the Arts, and the poems indeed reveal the author's dual cultural heritage -Canadian (he is from Windsor, Ontario) and Italian.The volume opens with a poem entitled "The Photograph of My Grandfather Reading Dante," a loving description of the poet's maternal grandfather who would routinely sit in a rock- ing chair after dinner with a copy of the Divine Comedy.In the introduction to the collection, Gasparini acknowledges that the first poetry he remembers hearing as a child was Italian, and that it was the poetic rhythms and the sound of his grandfather's voice that had appealed to him (13).His dedicatory poem to Toronto's current poet-laureate Pier Giorgio di Cicco C II sangue') is revelatory of his experience as an Italian Canadian, as well as his aspirations as a poet: "Strangled by a spaghetti stereot)'pe,/ an Italian is supposed to lay bricks./You build poems with the stars" (123) The author's compassion for his fellow journey- men past and present, specifically those issuing from minority or underprivileged contexts, or situations of disempowerment, is striking.One witnesses it clearly in pieces such as "Tekahionwake" (145), a poem dedicated to the former Mohawk princess whose ancestral abode on the Grand River has since become an Ontario museum, in which the poet asks: "How many war-painted braves/would have bro- ken their arrows/ just to hear you singing?" Len Gasparini's intention in publishing The Broken World\^2& to gift "a poet- ic image of reality in rhymed verse, blank verse, and free verse" (13).He has succeeded brilliantly.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.022 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".