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With rugged verse "like a strega's curse," Angelo Zeolla navigates the stoops and alleyways of the Bronx through worlds of languages, dialects, culturesa, and more. "The Bronx Unbound" is a...

During his sojourn, the Maestro kept a notebook in which he recorded everything that caught his eye, from the natives' peculiar manners and dialect to the fastchanging scenery on his walks along...

The Country of AbsenceAuthor: Felix StefanilePublisher: Bordighera PressPublication Date: Apr 16, 2012Number of Pages: 82 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1599540452ISBN-13: 9781599540450

"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...

Literary Nonfiction. Italian American Studies. Jewish Studies. "Just as philosophy does not make progress by resolving eternal problems, but rather by rigorously meditating on particular facts,...

The End of Aphrodite (VIA Folios)Author: Laurette FolkPublisher: Bordighera PressPublication Date: April 14, 2020Number of Pages: 214 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

He was ready to let himself be pervaded by an idea and to experience it by compassionately living it, so as to possess it. Then sometimes he would turn it around and transform it into something rich...

Set in turn-of-the-century Italian Harlem, the gripping immigrant epic The Fire in the Flesh puts into motion both a business plot and an occasionally intersecting love plot that ensnare its...

Mike Fiorito shoots the brief documentary tales of The Hated Ones" in a vivid black and white, bringing to life a "Basketball Diaries"-like world of ne'er-do-wells growing up on the wrong side of...

Lewis Turco, on the other hand, appears to have combined the longevity of Utnapishtim with the energy and industry of Gilgamesh: once seized with inspiration, he wrote The Hero Enkidu at white heat...

Fiction. THE HUNGER SAINT is a story of hope and survival set in post-WWII Italy. Hailed by Kirkus as "a well- crafted and affecting literary tale," this historical novella follows the journey of...

This volume collects the essays presented at the colloquium "The Hyphenate Writer and the Legacy of Exile" held in February, 2008. This colloquium was born from an ongoing discussion we have been...

Tina Modotti, Diane Arbus, and Francesca Woodman have little in common of their origins or personal histories, but each share a passion to tell a story with the camera. Finding beauty and pain where...

. . . the shift from Eugenioʼs main student interest in science in favor of theoretical philosophy, on one hand, and his post-graduation "German period," on the other (along with the visible...

The Literal Truth (VIA Folios)Author: Mark CiabattariPublisher: Bordighera PressPublication Date: Nov 10, 2020Number of Pages: 152 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1599541521ISBN-13:...

Poetry. From TOMATO PIES, 25 CENTS: [A]t my Grandmother's restaurant in Trenton New Jersey. My grandfather is rolling meatballs in the back. He studied to be a priest in Sicily but saved his sister...

Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Art. Hybrid Genre. Italian & Italian American Studies. Edited by Katia Pansa and Nicholas Grosso. With acerbic wit and grand parodic visions, Aldo Palazzeschi challenges...

The Mercury Man is a collection of thirty-six memoir narratives about growing up on the streets of Brooklyn in an Italian working-class family in the 1950s and early '60s with his doo-wop singing,...

Richard Vetere's poetry is built on a beautiful, spare language that keeps him always on point. At times, bracing and revealing, Vetere is also capable of infusing his poetry with a good dose of...

LaFemina's book is the Bordighera Poetry Prize #6, first published in 2005. "What draws me to Gerry LaFemina's poems is how much of the world they contain: Brooklyn streets, race-tracks, Vietnam, a...

The answer [Eugenio Colorni's, to a question of Ursula Hirschman's on the existence of concentric circles" in explanations of reality] is this: that the philosophical illness is more difficult to...

"George Guida has guts. In Pope Stories and Other Tales of Troubled Times, he sets about slaughtering the sacred cows of Italian American culture beginning with the Papal Bull himself . . ."-Jean...

The Portable Lentricchia is an ideal entrance into the fi ctional world of the novelist described as "the greatest unknown writer in America." This thrilling selection of Frank Lentricchia's fi ction...

Author: Jennifer MartelliPublisher: Bordighera PressPublication Date: Apr 12, 2022Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1599541807ISBN-13: 9781599541808

C.P. Snow famously suggested that modern humanity had bifurcated itself into people who 'knew' either by way of science or by way of the humanities. Here comes Ross Talarico to heal that rift with...

"As one travels through this concise, engaging cultural autobiography, as I would call it, of Marra's many experiences, one realizes that he was much more than an observer. If by "observe," we mean...

"Imagine Jonathan Swift with an Italian American sensibility-that's George Guida, a true original with the capacity to be hilarious, surreal and rueful, sometimes at once. Whether he's traveling...

Poetry. A collection of sonnets by Lewis Turco. THE FOREWORD BLUES Wesli Court said I should write a book, A bunch of blues--enough to fill a book, And he'd design the cover. I said, "Look, If you'll...

Author: Tony TaddeiPublisher: Bordighera PressPublication Date: Apr 12, 2022Number of Pages: 160 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1599541750ISBN-13: 9781599541754

It is hard to think of a better point of entry into Gramsci's thought than his essay on the "Southern Question." Written on the eve of Gramsci's arrest and imprisonment, this essay anticipates many...