Description
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Fiction. "The three Sicilies of Joseph Amato's unusual and finely crafted book can be counted, according to its table of contents, as those of fiction, poetry, and social and family history. But they can also be enumerated in another way—the homeland of his ancestors, especially his paternal grandmother, a strong but tragic figure whose story frames and focuses the entire volume; the locale of his own travels and experiences, vividly captured in the poems at the center of the work; and the historical and spiritual fountainhead of so much of his own personality and world view."—Michael Palma
Author Bio
Joseph A. Amato is the author of several books. He received his B.A. in History from the University of Michigan in 1960; his M.A. in History from the Université de Laval, Québec, in 1963, and Ph.D. in History from the University of Rochester, New York, in 1970. In 1969 Amato began teaching at Southwest Minnesota State University (SMSU) in Marshall, Minnesota, where he was a founder and chair of the History Department. He taught a range of courses in European intellectual and cultural history and historiography, with a particular interest in the Middle Ages, Renaissance, German, Italian, and French histories and European rural life, as well as taught ethics and introductory social science courses.
Author City: DETROIT, MI USA