Voices in Italian Americana

a literary and cultural review


Volume 4         Fall 1993        Number 2


Table of Contents

 

Tribute: 50th Anniversary of Jerre Mangione’s Mount Allegro

    Fred Gardaphé

          A Tribute to Jerre Mangione

    Bernard Weisberger

        Jerre Mangione: The Man and His Work

    Frank Salamone

        An Interview with Jerre Mangione

    John Lowe

        Humor, Ethnicity, and Identity in Jerre Mangione’s Storia

    Jerre Mangione: A Bibliography

 

Essay

    Dana Gioia

          What Is Italian-American Poetry?

    Maria Mazziotti Gillan

        In Response to Dana Gioia

    Leonardo Buonomo 

        “Monaca o Strega?”: The Catholic Missionary as Outsider in Sister Blandina Segale’s At the End of the Santa Fe Trail

         

Fiction

    Anthony F. Bruno

         Augie’s Revenge

    Camille T. Christie

         A Deceptively Simple Story

    Gary Giuntoli

        The Pearly Gate

    George E. Romasco

        Cut Ear Louie

 

Poetry

    Louis Antonelli

 

    Lenore Baeli Wang

 

    Dona Luongo Stein

 

    Frank Palescandolo

 

 

Italian Writing in the United States

     Stelio Cro

        Vocali

     Rita Dinale

        Sorella

        Le colline di Ngong

        Silenzio di donna

    Emilio Speciale

        Il Barbiere dei due mondi

        Sul Balcone

        Il Piano degli eroi

     Ruggero Stefanini

        Celebrazione colombiana

        Descent of the Species

        

Reviews

    Anthony Molino, Editor and Translator. Nearsights: Selected Poems by Valerio Magrelli (Robert Zaller)

    Diane Raptosh. Just West of Now

         Antonio D’Alfonso. Panick Love (Maria Lombardo)

    Columbus: Meeting of Cultures. (Ben Lawton)     

    Dana Gioia. Can Poetry Matter? (Carolyn Koo)

    Agnes Rossi. The Quick: A Novella and Stories (Edvige Giunta)

    Laura Corradi. When Night is Day. Women, Everday Life, and Nightshift Work  (Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum)

    Pasquale Verdicchio, trans. The Wall of the Earth (1964–1975) (Barbara Carle)

    Santo Barbieri. A Home Movie

    Patricia Fogliato and David Mortin. The Good Life (Stephen Martin)