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This book provides a history of Luigi Del Bianco's role as master carver of America's Mount Rushmore. Without Gutzon Borglum, Mount Rushmore would not exist. Douglas J. Gladstone rightfully places...

Read this book and meet two ballsy, brazen women whose lives are as captivating as the friendship they share. In this exquisite novel, a new world is imagined in which women-married women-make bold...

Poetry. Gil Fagiani's muse is Italian American memory. These are poems of origins and belonging, of family, culture, politics. These are recollections, both elegiac and ironic, of a world Gil Fagiani...

Fall semester 2009. Will Thierry is burnt out. He thought he had written a philosophy to end all philosophies. Instead, after abandoning his former life in New York, he has found himself stuck in...

A sparkling memoir about life as an Italian girl who becomes a wife in the enchanted village of Brooklyn.Author: Bea TusianiPublisher: Bordighera PressPublication Date: Feb 13, 2018Number of Pages:...

Fiction. In this seminal work, Helen Barolini tells the story of Frances Molletone grappling with her ethnic heritage as she falls in love with a married man. The author takes us to post-WW2 Italy, a...

The fine citation by Roland Barthes, which Ruffilli has posted as epigraph to this book, can induce (and, as far as I am concerned, has fleetingly induced me) to a curious "optic" error. For a few...

Diagnostics, Poetics of Time is a collection of poems on our attempts to read, or by diagnostics' Greek roots, to distinguish and discern, our place and condition in time. And it is the root sense of...

Author: Eugenio ColorniPublisher: Bordighera PressPublication Date: Sep 14, 2020Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1599541769ISBN-13: 9781599541761

A Festschrift in Honor of Paolo Valesio on his 70th birthday held at Stony Brook University, April 23, 2010Author: Peter CarravettaPublisher: Bordighera PressPublication Date: Dec 31, 2013Number of...

Dreams of an Imaginary New Yorker Named Rizzoli (VIA Folios)Author: Mark CiabattariPublisher: Bordighera PressPublication Date: Nov 10, 2020Number of Pages: 132 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Somehow John Ortenzio Bargowski has caught the quintessential soul of the Italian-American experience in a New Jersey we will recognize. Here are the subjects, familiar yet freshly observed: the...

Bordighera Poetry Prize 14 Somehow John Ortenzio Bargowski has caught the quintessential soul of the Italian-American experience in a New Jersey we will recognize. Here are the subjects, familiar yet...

An American masterpiece. - Maria Mazziotti Gillan, author of What We Pass On: Collected Poems 1980-2009 You will sing this book like a rock song. - Annie Lanzillotto, poet, author of Confessions of a...

A self-deprecating, sobering book about a world that continues to move forward without anyone really advancing. --Gian Paolo Serino As Europe, along with the rest of the world, struggles to learn...

The clamor of the cups hitting the saucers, the sounds of the coffee grinder, the machine and the steamer, the smells of coffee and fresh pastries, the counter filling with customers making a million...

This volume collects and expands on many of the ideas explored during the widely influential Italian American Discussion Group of the Modern Language Association . . . Scholarly writing about Italian...

Ethnicity: Selected PoemsAuthor: Joseph TusianiPublisher: Bordighera PressPublication Date: Apr 16, 2012Number of Pages: 120 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1599540460ISBN-13:...

This collection of essays is born out of the inaugural conference of the Mediterranean Centre for Intercultural Studies (MCIS), which took place in Erice, Sicily, in May 2013. The MCIS was founded in...

Extinction Wednesday is a memoir that investigates the challenges of nostalgia, letting go of the past, and pursuing positive change through the lenses of learning, unlearning, popular culture, and a...

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...

Federico F. is a semi-fictional novel that chronicles the last nine months of Italian film director Federico Fellini's life, from January to October 1993. Angelucci reveals how creatively Fellini...

A university professor of fine art and art history walks into an empty church in New York, seeking peace and clarity, and makes an unexpected observation-an Italian Baroque masterpiece unassumingly...

"From Bread and Tomatoes to Zuppa di Pesce 'Ciambotto'" is a wonderful introduction of genuine Apulian food to the non-Apulian. Accompanied by a series of vignettes and descriptions of the culinary...

Here is a mother lode of gold, till now unexplored. The richness of Italian American writings, seldom recognized, is at last given its due. Studs Terkel From the Margin is must reading for the...

Poetry. Anyone who knows anything about poetry written in English between the two World Wars knows the name Carnevali, but almost no on knows the words of the wonderful work he wrote, as he only...

Garibaldi M. Lapolla: A Study of His Novels is the first book-length examination of this important Italian-American author's work.Author: Steven J. BelluscioPublisher: Bordighera PressPublication...

Literary Nonfiction. Italian Studies. Text in Italian only. Scholar Eugenio Ragni brings us an enlightening investigation into the early works of Giose Rimanelli. This is an analysis of Rimanelli's...

Nicholas A. DiChario's Giovanni's Tree: New Italian Folktales is a wildly imaginative book and an important contribution to Italian-American stories. In this collection, DiChario honors the...

This book includes essays on the phenomenon of the "guido" its origins and its relationship to the Italian/American community. The writers share their own views on a phenomenon that, in December...