Voices in Italian Americana

a literary and cultural review

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Volume 8 Fall 1997 Number 2

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Table of Contents

1997 Bordighera Poetry Prize

Daniela Gioseffi

Introduction

Lewis Turco with Joseph Alessia, translator

Critical Essays

Teresa Fiore

The “I” Counterfeiting the “I”:
Frank Lentricchia’s Faked Confessional Ethnic Writing

Many Ann Mannino

The Empowered and Empowering Grandmother
in the Poetry of Italian/American Women

Non-Fiction

Edward Cifelli

John Cardi’s Selected Poems and
the “Italian-American” Question

Al Montesi

From Southern Italy to the Southern USA:
A Reminiscence

John Primavera

The Lusty Mediterranean

Fiction

Mary Bucci Bush

Mule

Louisa Calio

Lightplay

F. Anthony D’Alessandro

The Pirandello Connection

Ross Talarico

from Sled Run

Poetry

Santa Helena Amico

Gloria L. Collins

Diane diPrima

Maria Theresa Maggi

Rose Romano

Italian Writing in North America

Paolo Valesio

La Cambialavoro

1997 Italian American Cultural Foundation

Essay Contest Winners

Debbie Wilkinson

Christopher Bertone

Josephine Lombardi

Heather Godale

Christine Cicirelli

Ricardo A. DiFranco

Jennifer DeCarlo

Marisa Pocci

Review Essay

Maurizio Viano

Passing and the Demolition of Identity

Reviews

Kim Addonizio. Jimmy and Rita;
Sharon Niegri. Ruby and Other Lives. (Tom Johnson)

Tony Ardizzone. Taking It Home: Stories from the
Neighborhood. (Edvige Giunta)

Dorothy Barresi. The Post-Rapture Diner. (Elizabeth Mazzola)

Rita Ciresi. Blue Italian: A Novel. (Mary Jo Bona)

Onat Claypole, ed. and trans. Sicilian Erotica: A Bilingual
Anthology of Erotic Poems by Giovanni Meli, Domenico
Tempio and Giuseppe Marco Calvino. (RoseAnna Mueller)

James Wyatt Cook, trans. Antonia Pulci: Florentine Drama
for Convent and Festival, Seven Sacred Plays.
(RoseAnna Mueller)

Stelio Cro. The Spirit and the Flesh. Manzoni and the
Modern Novel. (William E. Leparulo)

Alfredo de Palchi. Anonymous Constellation.
(Daniela Gioseffi)

Emanuel di Pasquale. Genesis. (Grace Cavalieri)

Rachel Guido deVries. How to Sing to a Dago.
(Giovanna Capone)

Luigi Fontanella. Ceres: poesie 1986–1992. (Alfredo de Palchi)

William Leparulo. Radici disperse. (Franco Zangrilli)

Little Italy. (Anthony Julian Tamburri)

Sebastiano Martelli. Letteratura contaminata. (Michael Vena)

Fred Misurella. Short Time (Daniela Gioseffi)

Paolo Valesio. Nightchant: Selected Poems. (Alfredo de Palchi)

Tom Zaniello. Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds and Riffraff:
An Organized Guide to Films and Labor. David Shevin and
Larry Smith, eds. Getting By: Stories of Working Lives.
(Fred Gardaphe)