bordighera press aug 2014 (4 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - 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 Maggie from marrying a bad guy by coming to America. Uncle Joey is rolling dough and spooning sauce. Uncle Joey is always scrubbed clean, sobered up, in a white starched shirt, after cops delivered him home just hours before.'.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Poetry. 'In poems of remarkable fortitude and clarity, Marisa Frasca, a self-described 'hyphenated woman,' navigates the passages, geographical and psychological, that allow her uneasy flow between Sicily and America, among all 'our known / and unknown mothers.' This journey in which the Atlantic transforms into 'the old dark and narrow hallway of the immigrant' is always less familiar than we might anticipate as these poems conflate past and present, 'the displaced, the incomplete, / the made new / superimposed and piled together in chorus.' Like Nino Rota, Frasca conveys depths of sorrow and wonder in her rich, musical phrasings. The poems of VIA INCANTO are operatic with breath and sex and thirst and love.'--Michael Waters 'Frasca's vision and passion are so arrived, so rich with variation, that they elevate us inside a lyric adventure. Vittorini's 'twice real' reveries and Pavese's story-poem architectures whisper like companions to Frasca's native and chosen places: Sicily, the Atlantic, her beloved Manhattan--all fueling the book's narrative aesthetic and elegant shapes. But her darkroom--part time-capsule, part temple--steals everything. It tests the heart with fire and compression, and it tests all of us with razor-sharp memory. Then it gives back a shining array of immortal human faces and stories, indelibly. VIA INCANTO is a luminous original.'--Judith Vollmer.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Fiction. 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 sober, short fiction, which nicely complements his previously published novels.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - 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 human experience that is generally ignored in mainstream accounts. Bernard Bruno has written an original chapter in Italian-American history and culture.'--Frank Lentricchia 'Like the oral histories collected by Studs Terkel in his books, the memories and tales assembled in Bernard J. Bruno's memoir, A TEAR AND A TEAR IN MY HEART, offer the reader an insider's view of Chicago as it was in days gone past. This is a street-smart book about the old neighborhood as it truly was, about its ward bosses and priests and popcorn sellers, its secrets and corruption and occasional moments of grace.'--Tony Ardizzone.