Voices in Italian Americana

a literary and cultural review


Volume 1         Fall 1990        Number 2


Table of Contents

 

Essays

    Judith Pastore

        Marriage American Style:  Don DeLillo’s Domestic Satire

    Justin Vitiello

USA-Italy: Changing and Stagnant Relations

as Seen Through Oral Histories of Sicilian Emigrants

 

Non/Fiction

    Diane di Prima

        Recollections of My Life as a Woman

 

Fiction

    Rachel Guido deVries

         The Lost Era of Frank Sinatra

 

Poetry

    David Citino

 

    Dana Gioia

 

    Michael LaBruno

 

    Al Montesi  

 

    Rose Romano

 

 

Italian Writing in the United States

    Giovanni Cecchetti

 

    Luigi Fontanella

       

    Mario Pietralunga

        

    Ruggero Stefanini

        

    Paolo Valesio

 

 

Reviews

    Ferdinando P. Alfonsi, Dictionary of Italian-American Poets

       (A. J. Tamburri)       

    John Ciardi, Ciardi Himself—Fifteen Essays in the

       Reading, Writing, and Teaching of Poetry (D. Raptosh)

    Lawrence DiStasi, Dream Streets (L. Chiavola Birnbaum)

    Joseph Napoli, A Dying Cadence; G. R. Mormino & G. E.

       Pozzetta, The Immigrant World of Ybor City; Robert

        Anthony Orsi, The Madonna of 115th Street; Dorothy

       Gallagher, All the Right Enemies: The Life and Murder

      of Carlo Tresca; Joseoph Horowitz, Understanding

      Toscanini;  Adria Bernardi, Houses with Names; Gary

      Ross Mormino, Immigrants on the Hill (A. C. Gilli, Jr.)

    Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Flowers from the Tree of Night

      (1981); Winter Light (1985); The Weather of Old Seasons

        (1989) (L. I. Soucie)

    Lewis Turco, Visions and Revisions of American Poetry (E. Blair)