Poetry. Italian & Italian American Studies. "Anna Citrino has woven the story of Italian immigrants—their small joys and compelling heartaches—into a moonlit tapestry. Thread by poetic thread, this book is an exquisite fabric of personal journeys, c...
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Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Italian & Italian American Essays. Giose Rimanelli's study of Pavese highlights a strong sense of tradition, a loyalty to place and to one's roots, and the idea of America as a metaphor for one's literary substance, one'...
Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Art. Hybrid Genre. Italian & Italian American Studies. Edited by Katia Pansa and Nicholas Grosso. With acerbic wit and grand parodic visions, Aldo Palazzeschi challenges the status quo (whether they be institutions, norm...
Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. African Italian Studies. Memoir. Before Claudia Rankine's Citizen, Kossi Komla-Ebri navigates the trials and travails of life as an African Italian with its many daily embarrassments.
Poetry. Italian & Italian American Studies. This book blooms. The poet takes us on a walk through time, from the old neighborhood with its palimpsest of paese, to the mature juicy voice of the lover poet who plays piano nocturnes and faces the night...
Poetry. Italian & Italian American Studies. "THE GOOD FOR THE GOOD weaves wit and warmth into poems inspired by Italian and Sicilian sayings embraced by her family through generations."—Amy Barone
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. Italian American Studies. "Talarico's true-life narratives inevitably remind you of your own best, half-buried memories."—Chicago Tribune"Ross Talarico is a truly gifted poet."—James Wright"Some say ...
Literary Nonfiction. Italian American Studies. Hybrid Genre. Edited by Luca Meldolesi and Nicoletta Stame. The name of Eugenio Colorni is quite familiar among the many intellectuals who knew Albert Hirschman. This is not true, however, of his work. ...
Poetry. Italian American. "What a pleasure it is to read these unadorned yet carefully observed poems by Matthew Cariello. TALK wages a lyrical conversation with the self, the everyday, and the natural world where hard-won realizations are in perfec...
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...
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...