Wild Dreams : : The Best of Italian Americana / / ed. by Carol Bonomo Albright, Joanna Clapps Herman.

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• MitwirkendeR: Addiego, John,; Addonizio, Kim,; Ardizzone, Tony,; Barbarese, J. T.,; Barone, Dennis,; Bevilacqua, Christina,; Bonomo Albright, Carol,; Bruno, Maria,; Caponegro, Mary,; Carrizo di Camillo, Kevin,; Cavalieri, Grace,; Ciardi, John,; Cioffari, Philip,; Ciresi, Rita,; Clapps Herman, Joanna,; Clemente, Vince,; Corso, Paola,; Costabile, Antonio,; Covino, Peter,; Di Bartolomeo, Albert,; Di Piero, W. S,; Ermelino, Louisa,; Fante, John,; Ferrarelli, Rina,; Ferrini, Vincent,; Foley, Jack,; Foote Whyte, William,; Gioia, Dana,; Gioseffi, Daniela,; Greco, Francesco,; Guida, George,; Guido deVries, Rachel,; Hood, Ann,; Jo Salter, Mary,; La Puma, Salvatore,; Loschiavo, LindaAnn,; Malanga, Gerard,; Mancini, Gerald,; Mangione, Jerre,; Marotta, Kenny,; Maschio, Michael,; Mazzaro, Jerome,; McCormick, Brian,; Morreale, Ben,; Mortola Gilbert, Sandra,; Palamidessi Moore, Christine,; Palermo Stevenson, Rosalind,; Palma, Michael,; Paolucci, Anne,; Papaleo, Joseph,; Parini, Jay,; Rizza Ellsberg, Peggy,; Rossini, Clare,; Salemi, Joseph,; Stefanile, Felix,; Tagliabue, John A.,; Theroux, Alexander,; Tocco, Tina,; Turco, Lewis,; Viscusi, Robert,; Zurlo, Tony,
• HerausgeberIn: Albright, Carol Bonomo,; Clapps Herman, Joanna,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 p.)

For more than thirty years, the journal Italian Americana has been home to the writers who have sparked an extraordinary literary explosion in Italian-American culture. Across twenty-five volumes, its poets, memoirists, story-tellers, and other voices bridged generations to forge a brilliant body of...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• Ancestors
• PROSE
• My Father’s God
• The Actor Prepares
• The Night Maggie Saw God and Sal Barnum Too
• Sizes
• An Etruscan Catechism
• Lamb Soup
• Marco’s Marcoroni
• The Guest
• POETRY
• East River Nocturne
• On the Square
• Autobiography
• Tea at Aunt’s
• Cento at Dawn
• L’Esiliatu (The Exile)
• The Cellar Twenty Years Later
• Minotaur
• The Garden of the Apocalypse
• In the Golden Sala
• Father’s Days
• In Tunis I Walked through Halfaween
• Shinto Mama
• Spanish Steps
• Nana’s Earrings
• The Sacred and Profane
• PROSE
• Against Gravity
• My Friend, Angelo Ralph Orlandella
• That Winter Evening
• Sanctifying Grace
• POETRY
• Luisa and Buffalo Bill
• The Concept of God
• My Father at Eighty-five
• The Caves of Love
• Linens
• Love and Anger
• PROSE
• The Two Uncles
• The Prince of Racalmuto
• Wild Heart
• A Conversation with Camille Paglia
• Big Heart
• Permanent Waves
• Perfect Hatred
• POETRY
• Inside the Inside of the Moon
• Why I Drive Alfa Romeos
• Walking My Son on the Beach
• The Skeleton’s Defense of Carnality
• Birth and Death
• PROSE
• A Marvelous Feat in a Common Place
• Where It Belongs
• Unraveled
• Mama Rose
• Cairns
• Card Palace
• POETRY
• Planting a Sequoia
• É si riuniscono, questi vecchi . . .
• Grandmother in Heaven
• Art and Self
• POETRY
• Cape Clear
• Language Lesson
• Lizard-Tree
• Athletes of God
• Libretto
• Books, how silent you are
• Requiem for a Practical Possum
• Self-Portrait as Woman Posed on Flowered Couch
• Happenstance
• War Song
• About the Authors