Animals

by Sofia Pirandello

ISBN 978-1-59954-225-6

Crossings 42

Sofia Pirandello takes readers on a round trip from the Sicilian suburbs to Northern Italy and back again where the heat empties your head of thoughts and makes you sick with dissatisfaction, where under the dry land, scarred by drought, there flows hidden streams of a feral, violent world.

Sempre Fidele

by Joseph Bathanti

ISBN 978-1-59954-224-9

Crossings 41

Emanating from a now-vanished Little Italy in Pittsburgh, this bilingual poetry collection summons back to life a "rough and raw" American landscape of a bygone era.

An Education

edited by Nicoletta Stame

ISBN 978-1-59954-226-3

Il nostro mezzogiorno 2

This book is a collection of writings related to an educational journey, one that includes both classroom work (as practiced by Luca Meldolesi, professor of economic policy at Federico II University in Naples, and his students), and the formation of a group that has taken various names in successive phases.

The Tomb of the Divers

by Francine Masiello

ISBN 978-1-59954-223-2

VIA Folios 175

Moving beyond stereotypical tales of poverty and deprivation in southern Italy, The Tomb of the Divers weaves an immigrant yarn about small-time artists and crooks who, over the course of a century, wend their way from Basilicata to the anarchist enclaves of Paterson, New Jersey and from fascist Italy during World War II to Buenos Aires a er its "dirty war" of the 1980s.

This multigenerational story is told by narrators Rosanna and Max, siblings who dig into family archives and dispute their revelations. But Francine Masiello doesn't let us distinguish history from fiction, truth from lies; instead, writing with pleasure and wit, she reminds readers of that old Italian saying . . .

It's not true, but I believe it.

The Birthday Years

by Rachel Guido deVries

ISBN 978-1-59954-221-8

VIA Folios 173

Off and on since Rachel Guido deVries was eleven years old, she has written a poem on her birthday. Now at 75, she has gathered these poems into a collection both intimate and expansive, mixing the natural world with personal insight.

Collegiate Gothic

by Matthew Meduri

ISBN 978-1-59954-220-1

VIA Folios 172

Fall semester 2009. Will Thierry is burnt out. He thought he had written a philosophy to end all philosophies. Instead, after abandoning his former life in New York, he has found himself stuck in Ohio at a perpetually renovated public university where the students don't care, the faculty is spread thin, and the administration is executing budget cuts of epic proportion, including Will's department and his job. To make matters worse, he suspects he is being stalked by his ex-girlfriend Lily Zephyr, inarguably the reason why he is in this purgatory of suburban sprawl and Sunday dinners. In an attempt to track down his pursuer, Will embarks on a paranoid investigation that leads him to strange coincidences, colleague conflicts, an affair with another professor's wife, the archives of an obscure Italian architect, recruiting a student as his own private investigator, and yes, even vertigo, all to confront a past he thought he'd left behind.