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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

Fiction. "In her engrossing VISITS, Helen Barolini--the author of the classic "Umbertina" and editor of the equally classic Dream Book--once again explores the complexities of an Italian heritage and an Italian- American futurity. Tracing her protagonist's emotional, spiritual and aesthetic encounters with parents, siblings, husband, lovers, daughters, grandchildren, and friends, she narrates an arduous journey toward self-achievement while also bringing three generations of a fascinating family to life. The many lovers of Umbertina and Barolini's other works will be enthralled by this riveting novel."--Sandra (Mortola) Gilbert

"Along with his own dialect, Iannace also recreates the speech of fellow Italian workers speaking diff erent dialects such as Sicilian and Neapolitan. Iannace's use of language suggests not just the various linguistic infl uences on the immgrant's life and their limited education, but also the 'double value' of the immigrant's life." -Nancy Carnevale, A New Language, A New World

Literary Nonfiction. Art. A collection of essays that originated from a symposium of scholars in the United States that speak to Giose Rimanelli's literary contributions since his arrival in the United States sixty-plus years ago.

Fiction. Short Stories. Translated from the Italian by Barbara De Marco. In SARACEN TALES, Italian-born Giuseppe Bonaviri brings a wild newness to the tale of the life of Jesus. In this succession of stories, Bonaviri explores all manners of the known and unknown, the archetypal, the mythological, the symbolic--the life of Jesus is both his material and his point of departure. Part surrealism, part folklore, readers will be amazed at the originality and creativity with which a long-familiar tale is presented. "Bonaviri is a myth-maker, looking simultaneously to the historical past and to the future, to arrive at the a-historical, at cosmic universality"--Franco Zangrilli. Giuseppe Bonaviri was born in 1924 in Sicily. He began writing when he was ten and continued through high school, college, and in his professional life as a doctor, health official, and cardiologist. His work has been widely translated.

Literary Nonfiction. Film Studies. Remarkable for the variety and sophistication of the approaches that it brings to its subject matter, SCREENING ETHNICITY makes a powerful argument for the validity, indeed the necessity, of Italian American cinema as an object of study. By including the concepts of race, gender, and social class along with the more obvious themes of identity and ethnicity, this collection sheds new light on the careers of Frank Capra, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Cimino, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, and the recently canonized David Chase, while calling attention to the achievements of such lesser known figures as Abel Ferrara, Stanley Tucci, Mariarosy Calleri, and Nancy Savoca. "It comes as no suprise that there is so much smart thinking and writing contained in this book"--Bill Tonelli, Rolling Stone.

Poetry. Translated to the Italian by Elisa Biagini, Luigi Bonaffini, Ned Condini, Luigi Fontanella, and Irene Marchegiani. Daneila Gioseffi's BLOOD AUTUMN/AUTUNNO DI SANGUE features selected poems and new work by the poet in both the original English and Italian translation. "Visionary and powerful. Tremendous vitality. A gifted and graceful writer"-Galway Kinnell. "A pleasure to read...Gioseffi's work is brilliant, compassionate, and timely"-D. Nurkse. SPD also carries WORD WOUNDS & WATER FLOWERS and GOING ON, as well as the Gioseffi-edited anthology WOMEN ON WAR: INTERNATIONAL WRITINGS.

Literary Nonfiction. "Told with artful artlessness, direct and unpretentious in manner, A TEAR AND A TEAR IN MY HEART is rooted in the particularities and pleasures of the local. Just the sort of human experience that is generally ignored in mainstream accounts. Bernard Bruno has written an original chapter in Italian-American history and culture."--Frank Lentricchia "Like the oral histories collected by Studs Terkel in his books, the memories and tales assembled in Bernard J. Bruno's memoir, A TEAR AND A TEAR IN MY HEART, offer the reader an insider's view of Chicago as it was in days gone past. This is a street-smart book about the old neighborhood as it truly was, about its ward bosses and priests and popcorn sellers, its secrets and corruption and occasional moments of grace."--Tony Ardizzone

Poetry. "STONE WALLS administers a dose of Americana with a twist. Gil Fagiani's fifties childhood is recalled with the treats and temptations of post-war prosperity and adolescence rendered in high relief. Beneath the bucolic surface of suburban Connecticut the seeds of a rebellion that will explode a decade later are germinating. These poems are filled with the restlessness of the first generation born after the bomb and portray the initial, impulsive steps toward revolutionary sentiments."--Stephen Siciliano "Although we get glimpses into the perspective of the older poet in Gil Fagiani's latest book, STONE WALLS, it is the boy and adolescent poet that grabs us, as he zeroes in on the odd, the paradoxical, the grotesque, the irrevocably defamiliarized familiar. This evocative collection gives us front-row seats, and we feel the heat of the bodies on this stage of Italian American life captured with documentary precision and bitter tenderness."--Edvige Giunta "STONE WALLS is a closely observed saga of violence and remembrance while growing up. When the violence isn't writ large, it hovers above the words like a helicopter about to dump a body. 'Kiddie Rides' is not about carousel horses, but 'bloody hands behind the shower curtains,' and 'Class Struggle in the Connecticut Countryside' is about a violent rumble in the supposedly peaceful suburbs. Fagiani battles heroin too, and though he ultimately wins this one (this book is proof), the fallout causes the reader to share his father's sadness at what's happening to his son."--Ron Kolm

Literary Nonfiction. Italian Studies and Economics. Translated from the Italian by Ilaria Marra Rosiglioni. Italy has come to a grinding halt. Its economy had already slowed down well before the great crisis; its growth was fatigued and many problems of its society and its economy worsened and eventually went unresolved. A new wave of data and studies allows us to better understand this halt and the probable causes that are at the root of the problem. In its history, Italy has shown many interesting differences with respect to the other European countries. It is a different model for capitalism; possesses a different type of social and economic organization that is not necessarily worse than any of the other countries: quite simply it has its own pros and cons. However, the grinding halt of the Italian economy in the new century illustrates one thing quite clearly: that this model of capitalism and society is having more and more difficulty ensuring the well-being of all Italians in the present and in the future. The system cannot be changed in a radical manner, as some superficial champions of Anglo-Saxon liberalism would suggest; but certainly small changes are not sufficient either. Italy needs to undergo a "special maintenance" procedure.

Poetry. Italian American Studies. Women's Studies. "Maria Terrone's poems are simultaneously sensuous and spiritual, earthy and intellectual. Her imagination takes fire from contradiction and complexity. One small image--washing a potato or rearranging a lingerie drawer--can open up vistas of private desire or public history. Her poetry explores the contingencies of time and eternity, the mysterious interpenetration of reality and the imagination."--Dana Gioia "As alert to the edgy political nature of contemporary reality ('the names of nations changing/ as people revolt and take aim') as they are to the luminous energies of ordinary facts, or the hard truths of the body's own shocking vulnerability, or the complicated inheritance drawn from her beloved Italian ancestry, Maria Terrone's poems see 'eye to eye' with a world she can at once celebrate and grieve over, but for which she shows a deep, empathetic, richly articulate understanding. Thoughtful, grounded, even visionary at times, her language in this mature third collection is a kinetic mix of keen-eyed observation and unsentimental judgment. In one poem she sees 'gnarled hawthorn trees that lean/towards me like question marks.' As a poet she lives, like the rest of us, in a world of questions marks--but what shines through them is the fierce light of the life force itself, telling her 'it's possible for a body to float on joy.'"--Eamon Grennan "Maria Terrone's eyes and ears are honey, and her touch is 'near enough to lift each hair on my skin.' Through trauma and joy her nuanced and evocative poems are insistent and alive. Terrone pinpoints unforgettable moments and we can feel the shock of discovery as she enacts how 'to suspend your life for another.'"--Annie Marie Macari

Poetry. "Al Tacconelli's PERHAPS FLY draws us into the complex and deeply-felt inner world of the author--a Proustian journey across a lifetime--and, like Proust's prose masterpiece, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu, it is both a superb rendering of Remembrance of Things Past and In Search of Lost Time. Both translations apply to this, by turns mournful and exuberant, memorial and celebration of actual experience and meditation on ancestral and generational links we feel but cannot know. Visits to and from his mother's extended Poughkeepsie clan are happy excursions happy moments that stand in contrast to the household hundreds of miles away. The book is a life-affirming and death-riddled account of a childhood, adolescence, and adulthood of rich memory and devastating loss. Vivid descriptions abound, so we participate with Ma in whipping up the morning eggnog and accompany Nonna as she bathes her St. Joseph's Day Eggs in a lusty tomato sauce. We feel the ancestral presence in the wine cellar, where 'the faintest fragrance still lingers, Gone now the wine makers slowly becoming more forgotten.' The book is honest, wise, and will haunt the reader long after it is put down. The poet says 'I choose to remain silent,' but the reader will be grateful the author defied the 'peasant's aged finger against my lips,' and decided to speak."--Diana Cavallo

As in previous volumes, this collection of essays contributes to the fundamental mission of the Mediterranean Centre for Intercultural Studies-founded in 2012 and located in Erice-with the specific goal of creating a dialogue between those scholars whose intellectualwork is dedicated to topics and themes related to any aspect of Mediterranean culture, in the broadest sense of the term. This volume also underscores our desire-and dare we say, necessity-to make readily available the best of work that emanates from the Centre''s annual meetings.

Poetry. Italian American Studies. This is Emanuel di Pasquale's latest collection of poetry. His previous work has been praised by the likes of X.J. Kennedy, Richard Wilbur, Dana Gioia, and Grace Cavalieri. In this collection di Pasquale continues to offer his reader wonderfully crafted poetry that is both wistful and emotive.Praise for di Pasquale's previous work: "Emanuel di Pasquale's HARVEST is a collection of poetry that observes the landscape, both physical and psychological, of the New York / New Jersey region. Prof. di Pasquale immigrated to the United States as a teenager and has devoted a career to the literature of his adopted nation as well as his maternal country. The work is quintessentially American, whether he describes a landscape in suburban New Jersey or a poetry reading at the foot of New York City's Public Library. And yet, there is a hint of memory of the old country, a phrase, no doubt spoken with a sign that brings Southern Europe to Monmouth Beach ... a work of superb poetry with imagery so crisp it could be used in a text book. More importantly, it is a testament of what was brought to this country over the last 150 years that resonates in our culture from the plaque on the Statue of Liberty to the slap of the waves on the California coast."--Ed Bennett

Literary Nonfiction. LGBT Studies. Italian American Studies. Edited by Joseph Anthony LoGiudice and Michael Carosone. OUR NAKED LIVES: ESSAYS FROM GAY ITALIAN AMERICAN MEN includes essays by Michael Carosone, John D'Emilio, Charles Derry, George De Stefano, Joseph A. Federico, Joseph Anthony LoGiudice, Michael Luongo, David Masello, Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Joe Oppedisano, Felice Picano, Frank Anthony Polito, Michael Schiavi, Frank Spinelli, and Tony Tripoli.The impetus for this book derived from Michael's thesis on the marginalization of Italian American literature for his master's degree in English. While conducting his research, Michael stumbled upon two books of gay Italian American writings. The only two books! At first, Michael was excited with his discovery. Then disappointment and anger erased the excitement when he realized that Gay Italian American identities and voices were not represented in literature, especially Italian American literature and Queer literature. So, we talked about how both of our identities--Gay and Italian American--never appeared throughout our years of formal education. Those two characters were never written in the scenes; those two actors were never given roles on the stage. And we wondered how much longer this would continue, and how much more we were able to tolerate. The purpose of this book is to present these essays that inform on the experiences of these men and their lives as part of the diverse fabric of American society. The lives of these writers are complex because they are forced to conform into a society that demands that they do not express their sexual and ethnic identities, with pride, in positive ways. As sexual and ethnic minorities, these men experience double discrimination. Many people will ask why this book is important and unique, and why this grou

Poetry. LGBT Studies. An urban songline of New York. From the author of the memoir L is for Lion, comes a panegyric of the geology of Manhattan. These poems glitter. Manhattan schist is rendered as a template for the skyline and characters of New York. Grit and stardust collide in this debut collection of poetry and song. The book begins with the bright reflective quality of Mica and ends with the gentrified vision of the city where "New York is nine millions doors, and you have not one key." In between are stories of urban icons: iceman, fish peddler, heart butcher, meter maid, San Gennaro, the magic of grandmothers' hands, the vision of the oldest living tree in the city, immigrants who fell out windows and died in explosions, Italian phrases that link the essence of the sun to a rose to a heart, crushed tomatoes, sunsets, supermarkets, the glory of hot tar, the lessons of marines and lesbians. You will learn history and geology, Italian American heroes, and spiritual imperatives, through the syllables of this one poet's soul.

"In her unique, rhapsodic way, Maria Famà transmits history, both past and present, in her poetry. Bringing a modern touch to traditional storytelling, she gives voice to memory in the beat of our times. Through her words, we visit many corners of the world, not just the Sicily and South Philadelphia which are most likely to be familiar to her, but every other place her stories bring us. Famà seems to be at home everywhere, even the spirit world, as indicated in the title of this collection, Mystics in the Family. Her characters are endearing, and so is her way of invoking them. Each subject is eyed with her purity of vision, and treated with tenderness and respect. Through Famà''s poetry, history is appreciated, revered-and loved." -- Rosemary Petracca Cappello, Poet, Writer, and Editor of Philadelphia Poets

This collection of Tuscan recipes and poetry includes contributions from Ernie Wormwood, Katherine Williams, Christine Sostarich, Rose Solari, and Vivian Shipley.

This volume is a compilation of memoirs and poems of the author and his Sicilian immigrant family.

In this book, Zagarrio looks beyond the established concerns of Capra's interpreters. He illuminates aspects of Capra's works that were hiding in plain sight. In important early films such as "Ladies of Leisure" (1930) and "Forbidden" (1932), he discovers a despair deeper than humiliation and more permanent than the political machinations in which Smith and Doe found themselves enmeshed.

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian by Laura E. Ruberto. "An immigrant woman's moving account of what one gains, but also what one loses, when emigrating to the U.S. from a village in rural Campania. All those who have been uprooted from their homes can identify with this Southern Italian woman's life story--marked by acceptance of hardship and the poetic memory of the village in which she was born and to which she could not bear to return"--Paola Alessandra Sensi-Isolani, Professor of Anthropology, St. Mary's College of California.

Former prosecutor and assistant law director for Lakewood, Ohio, Mileti takesa look at what makes a successful con artist and scammer in the world of finearts--intelligence, finesse, ingenuity, and charm.

Winner of the prestigious Viareggio Literary Prize in 1984, this work chronicles the solitary life of Tosca, who spends her senior years among the offspring of her dearly departed cat.

This new novel completes what will inevitably be called the Anabasis Trilogy, and removes any doubt of Rimanelli's place in American literature.--Fred L. Gardaph, from the Introduction.

Literary Nonfiction. Italian Language Study. Edited by Zohra Saad. The purpose of this book is to provide detailed grammatical explanations, a pronunciation guide using English as a reference, notes on usage, and on fading and emerging linguistic trends, all based on contemporary Italian. It is especially centered on English speakers learning Italian as a foreign language but will make a great reference book for teachers seeking explanations on discrete grammatical points or examples of use as well.