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"Joey Nicoletti's book, Reverse Graffi ti, is dotted with images from popular culture-Captain Marvel, Spider Man, the Yankees, and these images are part of the story of his Italian-American family,...

Reconstructed through the Italian Foreign Ministry archives, a history of the lynchings of Italians in the United States and the international fallout.Author: Patrizia SalvettiPublisher: Bordighera...

The title, "Rumore di acque", epitomizes the deceptive simplicity of the entire text, for "rumore" in this context suggests something more haunting and troubling than mere 'sound', and the plural...

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...

About SCHISTSONG by Annie Lanzillotto: 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...

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...

Second WaveAuthor: Joseph V. RicapitoPublisher: Bordighera PressPublication Date: Oct 06, 2008Number of Pages: 87 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1884419984ISBN-13: 9781884419980

Emanating from a now-vanished Little Italy in Pittsburgh, this bilingual poetry collection summons back to life a "rough and raw" American landscape of a bygone era.Author: Joseph BathantiPublisher:...

In summer of 1965, Christopher Ricci's mother has runaway. Unable to take care of him, his father decides to leave the thirteen year old with his own sister in upstate New York. In this poignant...

Maria Galli Stampino has suggested that cultural studies makes a difference in the world of scholarship, and that it promises advantages to teachers and students of l'italianistica (Italian Cultural...

Fellini-Satyricon is a romp through an ancient Rome recreated via the imagination of the director Federico Fellini. Here Andrea Perruccio offers us an enlightening comparative study of the cinematic...

Author: Vincent PanellaPublisher: Bordighera PressPublication Date: Nov 10, 2020Number of Pages: 228 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1599541564ISBN-13: 9781599541563

Emanuel di Pasquale's poems should be read by every American . . . He excels at the short lyric, writes directly, and feels deeply . . . The reader is enriched by both his Sicilian and his American...

WINNER OF THE 2022 LAURIA/FRASCA POETRY PRIZE Sicilianas, an admirable work of imagination, creates a space where we-like the characters in its poems-live uneasily. It's a space of myth and...

"Wonder Years" meets "Bronx Tale" and a Christmas story to boot! Disturbing, big-hearted, and inspirational, still another classic from Ross Talarico. In this modern-day Robin Hood tale, a teenager...

As a poet, Stefanile presents a series of interesting paradoxes. He was both a nationalist and a cosmopolitan. Although he consciously worked in "the American grain," his poetry was nourished by deep...

George Guida's "Spectacles of Themselves" is a brilliant survey that reflects the workings of a subtle mind with a keen eye for the minutiae of expression in a charged field. He explains the dynamics...

"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...

This unique and remarkable catalogue raisonn?e may well represent the corner stone of a long needed Italian American Archive, the entry-point to the social, political and literary micro-history of...

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...

Author: Angie MacriPublisher: Bordighera PressPublication Date: Apr 12, 2022Number of Pages: 86 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1599541823ISBN-13: 9781599541822

In a passionate and polemical manner, Pino Aprile's "Terroni" examines the effect that the unification of Italy has had on Southern Italy and analyzes what some of the ramifications are today. A...

In this book, Zagarrio looks beyond the established concerns of Capra's interpreters. He illuminates aspects of Capra's works that were, so to speak, hiding in plain sight. "Not invisible but...

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...

A linked story collection set in Morocco's gleaming imperial cities, twisting medinas, and remote Saharan outposts, THE ARAB's OX was awarded the Chicago Foundation for Literature Award for Fiction,...

Literary Nonfiction. THE ART OF READING ITALIAN AMERICANA is a celebration of the Art of Reading, in which the reader and writer engage in dialogue. This book covers the ten-year period since Fred...

Off and on since Rachel Guido deVries was eleven years old, she has written a poem on her birthday. Now at 75, she has gathered these poems into a collection both intimate and expansive, mixing the...

During a time of hunting down the [im]migrant, it is good to read a book like Elena Gianini Belotti's "The Bitter Taste of Stranger's Bread". It reminds us who we were in the early twentieth century,...

"Sometimes it's one's duty simply to call attention to the special beauty that's there before us, but which, being preoccupied, we so often fail to see. Like noticing the morning sun rising like the...

"Sometimes it's one's duty simply to call attention to the special beauty that's there before us, but which, being preoccupied, we so often fail to see. Like noticing the morning sun rising like the...