Art, aesthetics, literary criticism, and political science are fields that are today scarcely recognized (though they were originally long pursued) among the truly extraordinary intellectual exploits of the great Italian philosopher and political ac...
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A written monument to the Italian Canadian community of Ottawa before that memory forever dissipates into the realm of youthful forgetfulness and disregard, this study explores the history of Preston Street along with its social groups, landmarks, a...
Winner of the 2021 Lauria/Frasca Poetry Prize. The poems collected in SUNSET CUE have a rare, mystical quality. Through her observant eye, love of science and nature, and poetic alchemy, Angie Macri transmutes her subjects-red-winged blackbirds, a g...
New York, 1910. Pasquale D’Angelo, a sixteen-year-old native of Abruzzo, arrives at Ellis Island together with his father and a group of their companions in search of a better life. The shock of the New World is brutal, one of the worst experienced ...
In this tenacious collection of poems, the drugs, pop music, rocket crash, and Martelli's “queens”—from Geraldine Ferraro to Madonna, Nancy Pelosi to Molly Ringwald--embody the struggle with and resistance against gender oppression, political sexism...
In an unsentimental departure from the conventional immigrant family saga, the linked stories of THE SONS OF THE SANTORELLI feature the collision of great hope and whittling circumstance. Tony Taddei invites us into the home of the Santorelli family...
Translated by K.E. Bättig von Wittelsbach. "My name is Milan because my mother adored books by Milan Kundera. But since her brother, named Misha, had been killed in a concentration camp, my mother always called me Misha and that is how I became Mish...
LAST STOP ON THE 6 is the return of the prodigal daughter to a world of long-buried hurts, political complexities, and female resilience. Dunn introduces characters of all possessing questions for which there are no easy answers - only the slow and ...
Fiction. Italian American Studies. Translated by Zachary Scalzo. Marino Magliani is an original, wild writer. When Magliani writes—he actually paints, sculpts, films. All your senses are stimulated. You will read this novel, in the magnificent trans...
Poetry. Women's Studies. Italian American Studies. "Janine Certo is a poet of grief and joy who searches inward and outward to find the transcendent meaning of 'house and universe.' Hers is a rare achievement: a philosopher's intelligence at work in...
Silvana La Spina gives voice to Penelope and provides her with an apt forum to narrate her story of abuse and manipulation - despite her royal status. As other queens, from Mary Stuart to Marie Antoinette, her side of the story deserves to be imagin...