Who speaks for the air?

Wrap up your Italian Heritage Month with a new bundle of books exploring expressions of italianità from Bordighera Press.

In Oxygen for Two, poet Paola Corso takes us to a Pittsburgh in transition, from a city of steel workers and smoky factories to a greening metropolis, where the past and future collide. Concluding the Pittsburgh air trilogy, the collection grapples with change, personal and public, and how the death of a patriarch demands reconciliation—or reinvention.

See our complete Fall 2026 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A Practical and Democratic Social Science

edited by Nicoletta Stame

ISBN: 978-1-59954-264-5

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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