Voices in Italian Americana

a literary and cultural review


Volume 5         Fall 1994        Number 2


Table of Contents

 

Guest Spot

     Daniela Gioseffi

        Introduction

        Amiri Baraka

        Leo Connellan   

 

Essays

    Vince Clemente

        Remembering John Ciardi

    Gilbert M. Fagiani

East Harlem and Vito Marcantonio:

My Search for a Progressive Italian-American Identity

    Jerome Krase

        Bensonhurst, Brooklyn:

        Italian-American Victimizers and Victims

 

Fiction

    Antonio D’Alfonso

         from Fabrizio’s Passion   

    Emilio De Grazia

        The Warrior and His Bride

    Fred Misurella

        Body Lessons

    Camille Taccarello Christie

        The Things I Could Have Said

 

Poetry

    Mary Cappello

 

    Vincent Casaregola

 

    Grace Cavalieri

 

    Susan Cavallo

 

    David Citino

 

    Maryfrances Cusumano Wagner

 

    Joseph M. Ditta

 

    Carmine Esposito

 

    Steven Frattali

 

    Jennifer Lagier

 

    Diane Raptosh

 

    Mary Russo-Demetrick

 

    Laura Anna Stortoni

 

    Diane di Prima

 

 

Italian Writing in North America

    Frank Treccase

        Ombre della sera

        Le vele del sogno

        Breve ritorno a homestead, Pennsylvania

        Nuovo sforzo

    Alessandro Vettori

        La lotta del professore

       

Prize-Winning Essays

    Anna Di Franco

        

    Rose Machor

        

 

Reviews

    Kim Addonizio. The Philosopher’s Club.

    Grace Cavalieri. Poems New & Selected (Daniela Gioseffi)

    Maria Corti. Otranto (Blossom S. Kirschenbaum)

    Joseph Tusiani, trans. Dante’s Lyric Poems  (RoseAnna M. Mueller)

    Justin Vitiello. Poetics and Literature of the Sicilian Diaspora.
        Studies in Oral History and Story-Telling
  (Lucia Chiavola

        Birnbaum)