Voices in Italian Americana

a literary and cultural review


Volume 9         Spring 1998        Number 1


Table of Contents

 

Guest Spot

    Daniela Gioseffi

        An Interview with Bob Holman:

        “Mouth Almighty” on the Cutting Edge of
        Multiculturalism’s Future Tech

        Poems by Bob Holman

 

Critical Essay

    Jim Marino

“I Wanted to Be a Good American”:
The Godfather Paradox

 

Non-Fiction

    Maria Mazziotti Gillan

        Why I Took Back My Name

    Federico Moramarco

        The Mother I Carry with Me

    Sandro Veronesi; Trans. John Satriano

        Dean Benedetti

 

Interview

    Gina K. Frangello

        An Interview with Cris Mazza

 

Creative Non-Fiction

    Arthur L. Clements

        Einstein’s Smile

 

Fiction

    Daniel Ferri

        Maria Cheats

    Rachel Guido deVries

        How It Was

    Renee Lynn Hansen

        Someone They Had Waited to Become

    Joseph Luzzi

       The Minstrel of New York

 

Poetry

    Joseph O. Aimone

 

    Charles Cantalupo

 

    Grace Cavalieri

 

    Gilda Morina Syverson

 

    Joy Passanante

 

    Karen Piconi

  

    Francine Poppo Rich

 

 

Italian Writing in North America

    Adeodato Piazza Nicolai

 

    Antonella Pease

        

    Ruggero Stefanini

 

 

Readings

    Carole A. Clemente

        The Italian-American Woman: Searching for a Sense of
         Identity through Literature

 

Review Essays

    Helen Barolini

        From Silence to Salvos

    Adeodato Piazza Nicolai

        Peasant’s Wake Revisited

    Lewis Turco

        A Friend in Need, a Friend Indeed: A Memoir/Review

 

Reviews

    Joe Amato. Bookend: Anatomies of a Virtual Self.

        (Fred Gardaphe)

    Stanley Appelbaum, trans. and ed. Eleven Short Stories,
        Undici Novelle, Luigi Pirandello: A Dual Language Book.
    

        (RoseAnna Mueller)

    Helen Barolini. Chiaroscuro: Essays of Identity.
         (Mary Jo Bona)

    Daniela Gioseffi. In Bed with the Exotic Enemy.
        (Fred Misurella)

    Robert A. Hall, Jr., ed. Italian Stories, Novelle Italiane:
        A Dual Language Book. (RoseAnna Mueller)

    Ben Morreale. The Loss of the Miraculous.

    Debra Di Blasi. Drought & Say What You Like.
         (Daniela Gioseffi)

    Thomas Erling Peterson. The Paraphrase of an
        Imaginary Dialogue. (Colleen M. Ryan)