Bøker av Paola Corso

In Vertical Bridges: Poems and Photographs of City Steps, Paola Corso celebrates public stairways in her native Pittsburgh and around the world. Inspired by her Sicilian grandfather, a stonemason who built concrete steps, and her Calabrian grandfather and father, steelworkers who once climbed them to the mill, Corso is a storyteller. She shares memories of her family, the history behind Pittsburgh having more public staircases than any other city in the country, and curiosities about some of the world''s most famous steps. Vertical Bridges includes photos by the author along with archival photos from the University of Pittsburgh Library''s Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection.

The struggle and anguish in finding meaningful work in an economically depressed city

A fiction in which Italian American women and girls spin their culture's lore to enliven a dying steel town.

This novel spans four generations of a peasant family in the brutal poverty of post-unification southern Italy and in an immigrant's United States. The women in these tales dare to cross boundaries by discovering magical leaps inherent in the landscape, in themselves, and in the stories they tell and retell of family tragedy at a time of political unrest.