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Dear Readers,
Luigi Bonaffini calls our upcoming poetry collection: "a vital linguistic bridge." In Al di là del mare / Across the Sea, edited by Mike Maggio, poets grapple with a tension that strikes at the heart of Bordighera Press: how does one exist being in between two places, stuck between two identities, two cultures, two languages?
Some of our titles respond to these questions directly, at other times the weight of the questions color the background, but whichever the case, Bordighera Press strives to publish nuanced and singular voices that break and complicate stereotypes.
Preview our complete fall catalog below.
Buona lettura,
Fred L. Gardaphé
Nicholas Grosso
Anthony Julian Tamburri
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Oxygen for Two
by Paola Corso
ISBN: 978-1-59954-256-0
Who speaks for the air? The poet does in Oxygen for Two. For air and also family and love. Choked with smoky industry and cigarettes, the miasma of grief and loss, Corso somehow still breathes deeply.
—Sheila Squillante
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Becoming Eve
by Janine Certo
ISBN: 978-1-59954-257-7
Becoming Eve confronts the complexities of romantic and familial love in the face of marriage and divorce. Reimagining the story of creation, Certo expands the possibilities of love and kinship as reflected through the evolving roles of women in Italian American culture.
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Digging Up the Dead
by Mary Bucci Bush
ISBN: 978-1-59954-258-4
The dead are always with us. They are talked about and sometimes talked to; they are dreamed about, and sometimes seen, too. In this collection of short stories, the dead are amongst the living, traversing the threshold between this world and the next-by memory, ritual or magic-reminding readers the end is also a beginning.
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Killer Dog
by Enzo Zingale
ISBN: 978-1-59954-259-1
The lie hung from his neck like a stone pendant. Twenty-seven years it remained dormant but he knew it was waiting in the wings. Of course, Black Schmidt was aware of the lie; he was a part of it. Still, he hadn't seen Black Schmidt since the army days . . .
Then, in the course of a singularly brutal afternoon, his life unraveled into a black cloud; the lie resurfaced and the week that followed would haunt him the rest of his life.
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Family Dresses
by Elisa Di Giorgio Evangelista
ISBN: 978-1-59954-260-7
The dresses that fill this collection of poems tell only half the story. Through the loving and knowing gaze of Elisa Di Giorgio Evangelista, each outfit is an opportunity to inhabit a different way of being and to recall the journey that stitched those pieces of fabric together. In Family Dresses, fashion is more than a commodity, it is a fundamental way in which we inhabit our world and pass on our traditions.
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Al di là del mare / Across the Sea
edited by Mike Maggio
ISBN: 978-1-59954-261-4
This bilingual anthology of Italian and Italian American poetry is a bridge across place, language, culture, and history. Across 15 poets, we journey from one side of the sea to the other, and discover the resonances of memory, desire, and inner landscapes that cannot be contained by any border.
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The Walking Amoeba
by George Guida
ISBN: 978-1-59954-262-1
The Walking Amoeba is the story of an obese boy's childhood on 1970s Long Island. Through a colorful cast of characters, the memoir lays bare the hidey holes and naked stages of the boy's coming of age and slow sexual awakening warped by the comedy and tragedy of body dysmorphia.
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A Practical and Democratic Social Science
edited by Nicoletta Stame
ISBN: 978-1-59954-254-6
This volume brings into English, for the first time, field research beginning in the early 1990s on Southern Italy's underground economy conducted by Luca Meldolesi and collaborators under the aegis of Colorni-Hirschman International Institute. Many of the essays began as university theses and later grew into a coordinated program whose findings informed regional and national programs.
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VIA: Voices in Italian Americana is a semiannual literary and scholarly review.
Volume 37.1 includes a photograph from Jaina Cipriano; research from Ester Luna; fiction by Chuck Schading and Livio Milanesio; essays from Paul Frediani and Laura Camaioni; and poetry from Ned Balbo, Gregg Orifici, Ava Serra, Adria Bernardi, Maria S. Picone, Annie Lanzillotto, Vincent Peloso, Joanna Clapps Herman, and Alise Versella.
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