Wild dreams : the best of Italian Americana / edited by Carol Bonomo Albright and Joanna Clapps Herman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Albright, Carol Bonomo.

Herman, Joanna Clapps.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italian Americans.

Italian Americans--Social life and customs.

Italian Americans--Literary collections.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For more than thirty years, the journal Italian Americana has been home to the writers who have sparked an extraordinary literary explosion in Italian-American culture. Across twenty-five volumes, its poets, memoirists, story-tellers, and other voices bridged generations to forge a brilliant body of expressive works that help define an Italian-American imagination.Wild Dreams offers the very best from those pages: sixty-three pieces?fiction, memoir, poetry, story, and interview?that range widely in style and sentiment, tracing the arc of an immigrant culture?s coming of age in America. What

Contents:

""Cover Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""ANCESTORS""; ""PROSE""; ""My Father's""; ""The Actor Prepares""; ""The Night Maggie Saw God and Sal Barnum Too""; ""Sizes""; ""An Etruscan Catechism""; ""Lamb Soup""; ""Marco's Marcoroni""; ""The Guest""; ""POETRY""; ""East River Nocturne""; ""On the Square""; ""Autobiography""; ""Tea at Aunt's""; ""Cento at Dawn""; ""L'Esiliatu""; ""The Exile""; ""The Cellar Twenty Years Later""; ""Minotaur""; ""The Garden of the Apocalypse""; ""In the Golden Sala""; ""Father's Days""

""In Tunis I Walked through Halfaween""""Shinto Mama""; ""Spanish Steps""; ""Nana's Earrings""; ""THE SACRED AND PROFANE""; ""PROSE""; ""Against Gravity""; ""My Friend""; ""That Winter Evening""; ""Sanctifying Grace""; ""POETRY""; ""Luisa and Buffalo Bill""; ""The Concept of God""; ""My Father at Eighty-five""; ""The Caves of Love""; ""Linens""; ""LOVE AND ANGER""; ""PROSE""; ""The Two Uncles: An Addendum to Mount Allegro""; ""The Prince of Racalmuto""; ""Wild Heart""; ""A Conversation with Camille Paglia""; ""Big Heart""; ""Permanent Waves""; ""Perfect Hatred""; ""POETRY""

""Self-Portrait as Woman Posed on Flowered Couch""""Happenstance""; ""War Song""; ""ABOUT THE AUTHORS""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780823241057

082324105X

9780823246687

082324668X

9780823229123

0823229122

OCLC:

727645672