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Editorial Note by Max Wallis
Joseph Fasano is a poet of rare emotional clarity, each line carrying both weight and light. The Good News is a masterclass in quiet resurrection. With the gentlest touch, Fasano reorients suffering not as failure, but as evidence of deep, persistent love. His invocation of Lazarus is not religious dogma, but an urgent metaphor for the reader: to stand, to continue, even without certainty. This poem doesn’t shout; it listens. And in that listening, it offers something braver than hope, it offers permission.
