Poetry. Italian Studies. "In poems born of the rocky soil of the old country, where children learn to sew in a 'walled-in-garden' with 'one potted plant—crown of thorns,' Frasca threads history and myth. She tells of immigrant hope that turns so qui...
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Poetry. Italian Studies. "The poems in SEASON OF SUBTRACTION are at once effortlessly attainable, and at the same time surprisingly fresh and delightfully unexpected...If you listen carefully, you can hear Michelle say, Yes, you come too. SEASON OF ...
Literary Nonfiction. Italian Studies. "Rita Watson's memories of family, traditions, and community reveal what truly nourishes people. At the heart of this book is a wise and gentle grandmother who savored life and taught others how to live with com...
Poetry. Music. Italian American Studies. "forgetfulness / is food for gods / and words are too / so I sit on the sill / of this white window / and plan a house / with means I get / bricks I collect / and stare outside / anticipating works"—from "Fat...
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Essays. Italian Studies. "NOT FOR NOTHING transported me. Curto's gritty specificity with coming-of-age memories is humourous, gripping, and thought-provoking. NOT FOR NOTHING takes on the beauty, pain, tenderness, cruel...
Poetry. Women's Studies. Italian American Studies. "I love this book with its strength and riskiness, its weaving of the Kitty Genovese story with the narrator's own story and life. The details Martelli provides seem so real, so rooted, so perfect f...
Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Italian Studies. "I love this collection of essays by Maria Terrone, an exceptionally talented woman of Italian American ancestry who grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, with maternal roots firmly established, as she sho...
Poetry. Art. Religion and Spirituality. Italian Studies. MISSING MADONNAS begins with the lunar arrival of its author, Gil Fagiani, who throughout this collection explores mythical Madonnas, nonnas, and urban addiction and redemption for a portrait ...
Literary Nonfiction. Music. Italian Studies. The odyssey recounted within these pages traverses time and space in order to bear witness to an individual's developing artistry and commitment to political activism. In doing so, Kento chronicles the on...
Literary Nonfiction. Italian Studies. Art. Essays. Edited by Sabrina Vellucci and Carla Francellini. In the last three decades, Italian/American culture has at last experienced a veritable renaissance and has begun to be studied from diasporic, tran...
Fiction. Art. Film. "I can think of no other writer who can better express the ineffable sense of being born into the working poor before moving through different genres of living—hired factory hand, engineer, professor, poet, then back to hired aca...
Poetry. Women's Studies. Art. Translated from the Italian by Leanne Hoppe. "Poems that fall into the canon somewhere between personal and pastoral, that draw the reader to challenge her ideas about what creates a voice, how nature connects to our se...
Poetry. Women's Studies. In WHAT MY FATHER TAUGHT ME, Maria Giura writes richly and candidly about growing up Italian-American Catholic from her earliest days as the daughter of immigrant parents and a workaholic father to her coming of age and onwa...
Poetry. Art. "In PACKS SMALL PLAYS BIG, Phyllis Capello gives us exquisite, finely-crafted lyrical poems, polished and many-faceted as the finest jewels. These poems contain a woman's voice crying out from tenement windows and city streets. They bot...