Poetry. Italian American Studies. Women's Studies. "At the core of this elegantly crafted book is a riveting cautionary tale about heartbreak, disaffection, and visceral family dysfunction that soars to agonizing life as a result of the poet's preci...
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Literary Nonfiction. Italian American Studies. ". . . A strong sense of commonality is that necessary ingredient for the population to cohere and this to progress: for the study of all things Italian/American to become part and parcel of the dominan...
Poetry. "For decades, artist B. Amore has elegantly imagined and chronicled the Italian American experience, turning artifacts into talismans and revealing how the past continues to pulse within us. What a joy to see her artist's eye turn to poetry....
Fiction. Women's Studies. Italian American Studies. "THE END OF APHRODITE explores the relationship between artist and muse, between the subjects of myths and the keepers of them. This is a beautifully rendered work narrated by a collection of chara...
Literary Nonfiction. Film. Italian American Studies. "For those who believe that the choices involved in subtitling or dubbing foreign films are merely physical in nature—fitting the written words within the borders of the photogram, synchronizing t...
Literary Nonfiction. Italian American Studies. Jewish Studies. "Just as philosophy does not make progress by resolving eternal problems, but rather by rigorously meditating on particular facts, procedures and methods, and leaving the general systemi...
Literary Nonfiction. Italian American Studies. "Linda L. Carroll invites us to reconsider Jefferson's relationship with Italian thought and culture in a more expansive and encompassing manner. Going beyond Filippo Mazzei to Boccaccio's Decameron and...
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...
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. ...