Dear readers,
The deadline for the 2022 edition of the Lauria/Frasca Poetry Prize is rapidly approaching! Get in your submission before July 1st for your chance at the $1000 grand prize along with a standard royalty publication contract with Bordighera Press.
Created to promote the literature of the Italian diaspora and open to poets of Italian descent writing in English, this year's competition will be judged by George Guida, Maria Famà, and distinguished judge Kathleen Ossip. For more information, follow this link!
And we are eager to share a sneak preview of our Fall 2022 publications—mark your calendars for October 11!
Buona lettura,
Fred L. Gardaphé
Paolo A. Giordano
Nicholas Grosso
Anthony Julian Tamburri
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The Story of a Jewish Boy
by Leopold Berman
translated by Giuliana Carugati
ISBN 978-1-59954-192-1
Crossings 35
"This is the face of a boy whose youth was taken from him, who doesn’t know anymore how to cry or laugh, that life has crushed under the inhuman weight of cruel reality. In this photograph you see the mask of a face; if that mask were lifted you would see a mind troubled by life that too cruelly torments your son," Leopold Berman wrote his father in a postcard sent shortly after leaving a refugee camp. The Story of a Jewish Boy recounts the horrors and fleeting hopes of a boy and his family trying to survive the final days of World War II in Italy.
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When the Mask Slips
by Mark Ciabattari
ISBN 978-1-59954-170-9
VIA Folios 157
An old hand at postmodern literary play, Ciabattari is one writer who could claim charter membership in the Pirandello and Calvino schools of literary humor . . .
—From the Afterword by Fred Gardaphé
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Home
by Kossi Komla-Ebri
translated by Marie Orton
ISBN 978-1-59954-190-7
Crossings 34
Kossi Komla-Ebri writes about what he knows best: Africa remembered and revisited, Italy as his country of adoption, cross cultural diversity and similarity, the challenges of assimilation and retention of the individual within these contexts . . . It is to be hoped that more of his work will be published, the he will continue to write, and that he will take his place among Italy's best contemporary writers.
—Peter N. Pedroni
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Whaddyacall the Wind?
by Annie Rachele Lanzillotto
ISBN 978-1-59954-193-8
VIA Folios 159
Read this book and you'll understand why I cherish my friendship with this woman.
—Joe Mantegna
Lanzillotto is a master storyteller . . .
—Marianne Leone
We need her audaciousness and her genuine wise voice in these uncertain times.
—Tim Z. Hernandez
More from Annie Rachele Lanzillotto published by Bordighera Press: Schistsong
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Our Lively Kingdom
by Julia Lisella
ISBN 978-1-59954-189-1
VIA Folios 158
Our Lively Kingdom is poetry of life lived: "and the day begins again, un-remembering and un-making//that which must be felt again each night, the question repeating/and the question being answered." Julia Lisella writes about the fragility of life fleeting and the interminableness of a prayer.
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The Coazze Notebook
by Luigi Pirandello
translation and introduction by Lisa Sarti
ISBN 978-1-59954-154-9
Robert Viscusi Essay Series 5
The Coazze Notebook, as it came to be known, is a compendium of literary criticism, illuminating and emotionally charged personal reflections, vernacular expressions, and sharply observed geographical descriptions. The notes are fragmentary, and occasionally embellished, but they shed light on Pirandello's mode of thought and, in particular, how the ideas he gathered from real life were incorporated into his writing.
—From the Introduction by Lisa Sarti
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VIA: Voices in Italian Americana |
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VIA: Voices in Italian Americana is a semiannual literary and scholarly review.
Volume 33.1 includes fiction by Nancy Brewka-Clark, Kossi Komla-Ebri, and Leigh Esposito; an essay about a potential gondola ride in Venice by Karen White-Walker; and poetry by Stephen Campiglio, Beppe Cavatorta, George Guida, Robert Lima, and John L. Stanizzi.
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Grazie mille a tutti i nostri lettori e scrittori! |
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