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This stunning series of poems resembles, as Coriello explains, a curtail sonnet of sections that are eleven lines of three iambs (five couplets plus a singlet). While the form of the poems is...

This stunning series of poems resembles, as Coriello explains, a curtail sonnet of sections that are eleven lines of three iambs (five couplets plus a singlet). While the form of the poems is...

Literary Nonfiction. Music. Film. Gay Talese and Pete Hamill discuss the life and legacy of Frank Sinatra. "Like his hero, Jay Gatsby, Sinatra 'believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that...

Poetry. A collection of Joseph Tusiani's latest poetry in English. As this book went to press, NY State governor Andrew Cuomo announced that Tusiani had been designated NY State Poet Emeritus.Author:...

"Modeled after Dante's 'La Vita Nuova', Petrarch's 'Canzoniere', and Spenser's 'Amoretti', 'A New Life with Bianca' chronicles a young man's passion for a widow his age, from their first encounter in...

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...

A Season in Florida is Emanuele Pettener's debut book of fiction in English. Prolific in Italian with three novels, he now offers to the North American audience some of his delightfully funny, yet...

In the pages of Alain Elkann's latest novel, perhaps the most important book in his literary journey, the author takes on the challenge that is extreme brevity. Everything happens in one day...

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...

Set between the Netherlands and the end of western Liguria, Marino Magliani traces a geography of the humane and the forlorn, of panoramas and yearning. A Window to Zeewijk" is the story of a...

Poetry. Rachel Guido deVries's The Brother Inside Me seduces with poems celebrating nature's beauty in New York. Exploring the paradoxical permanency of desire and loss, deVries writes convincingly...

After Italy: A Family Memoir of Arranged Marriage is the story of marriages across three generations. Starting from a marriage brokered to facilitate immigration from Southern Italy to Braddock, PA,...

This multi-genre collection explores and unravels the complexities of "home" as a physical and cultural space, and as a contested condition of being. Drawing on personal experience as well as on the...

This is excellently controlled craftsmanship, conveying deeply felt emotion.The grief of loss is sharply poignant and real, yet never maudlin or self-indulgent. The music of the lines is subtle and...

America/TrattabiliAuthor: Dennis BaronePublisher: Bordighera PressPublication Date: Sep 12, 2011Number of Pages: 212 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1599540185ISBN-13: 9781599540184

An America in Antiquity? : Mediterranean Perspectives "La Pens? de Midi" and "Our Mezzogiorno" "La Pens? de Midi" and "Our Mezzogiorno"Author: Luca MeldolesiPublisher: Bordighera PressPublication...

This book is a collection of writings related to an educational journey, one that includes both classroom work (as practiced by Luca Meldolesi, professor of economic policy at Federico II University...

This book deals with Giose Rimanelli's three American novels, which in turn deal with the political and societal perversion of the presidential years of Richard Nixon and the socio political...

Maria Mazziotti Gillan's "Ancestors' Song" takes the reader on a journey, one in which she recognizes deep within herself "the voices of the women who came before," their words blending together,...

And Not to Break (Lauria/Frasca Poetry Prize)Author: Janet SylvesterPublisher: Bordighera PressPublication Date: Apr 14, 2020Number of Pages: 176 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

AnitaAuthor: Alain ElkannPublisher: Bordighera PressPublication Date: Dec 14, 2021Number of Pages: 94 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 159954170XISBN-13: 9781599541709

Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Italian Studies. I love this collection of essays by Maria Terrone, an exceptionally talented woman of Italian American ancestry who grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens,...

In her Rime (1627-28), FRANCESCA TURINI BUFALINI included a series of sonnets under the subtitle "Principio dello stato dell'autrice." . . . These poems are unique for their truly autobiographical...

Baroque is the true story of the young painter Mario Minitti and several others who lived in and loved in Rome at the turn of the century in 1600. They came to Rome to find fame and fortune, Fillide...

"Gutsy, irreverent, and tender, Nicole Santalucia is a poet of risk. In 'Because I Did Not Die, ' she peels away the protective layers behind which she could hide, and, instead, shows us the...

Bele Antiche Storie: Writing, Borders, and the Instability of Identity; Trieste, 1719-2007Author: Charles KloppPublisher: Bordighera PressPublication Date: Sep 29, 2008Number of Pages: 239...

Poetry. Music. Italian American Studies. "forgetfulness / is food for gods / and words are too / so I sit on the sill / of this white window / and plan a house / with means I get / bricks I collect /...

Blood AutumnAuthor: Daniela GioseffiPublisher: Bordighera PressPublication Date: Jun 01, 2007Number of Pages: 128 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 1884419887ISBN-13: 9781884419881

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...

winner of the 16th Bordighera Poetry Prize, made possible by a generous grant from The Sonia Raiziss-Giop Charitable FoundationAuthor: Joelle BielePublisher: Bordighera PressPublication Date: Oct 15,...