An Annotated Bibliography of Italian American Studies

Poetry

Page 2:  Citino to Di Santo

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Citino, David. Last Rites and Other Poems. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 1980.

----. The Appassionata Doctrines. Cleveland State Poetry Center, 1985.

---. The Gift of Fire. Fayettville: University of Arkansas Press, 1986.

---. The House of Memory. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 1990.

---. The Discipline: New and Selected Poems 1980 - 1992. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 1992.

[Winner of voices in italian americana's 1990 Aniello Lauri award, Citino uses Italian and Italian-American subjects throughout his work which evokes the cosmos as easily as the ethnic, religious and political subjects of his times.]

 

Clements, Arthur L. Common Blessings. Franklin Lakes, NJ: Lincoln Spring Press, 1987.

[Includes the poem "Why I Don't Speak Italian," among others which speak to the experience of a second-generation American of Italian descent.]

 

---. Dream of Flying. Forest City, PA: The Endless Mountain Review, 1994.

[Includes poems of family, travel, love and rural life.]

 

Corso, Gregory. Mindfield. New and Selected Poems. St. Paul, MN: Consortium Book Sales, 1989.

[Known primarily as a "Beat" poet, Corso rarely deals directly with his Italian-American ancestry which underscores much of his poetry.]

 

D'Alfonso, Antonio. Black Tongue. Montreal: Guernica Editions, 1983.

[Image speaks louder than words in these early poems of life, love and the Italian North American's pursuit of happiness.]

 

---. The Other Shore. Montreal: Guernica Editions, 1988.

[Divided into seven parts, the scattered reflections and recollections presented in prose and poetry (illustrated with black and white photos of Molise, his ancestor's homeland) combine to describe a voyage from self to other, a voyage in and through language from home to ancestral homeland.]

 

---. Panick Love. Montreal: Guernica Editions, 1992.

[A long prose poem which serves as a link between Italy and Montreal, analyzing the essence of identity]

 

Demetrick, Mary Russo. First Pressing. Syracuse, New York Hale Mary Press, 1994.

[Poetry about family, Italy, and women's lives.]

 

Demetrick, Mary Russo and Maria Fama. Italian Notebook, Poems. Syracuse, New York Hale Mary Press, 1994

[Poems about shared visions of Italy.]

 

de Vries, Rachel Guido. How to Ding to a Dago. Toronto: Guernica, 1995.

[A Southern Italian-American woman looks first at the world of family, lovers and friends, then focuses with passion and precision on the dominant culture in which she and her cast of characters must live.]

 

di Prima, Diane. Pieces of a Song. Selected Poems. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1990.

[Revolutionary artist/activist of the 1960s Beat literary renaissance, di Prima, granddaughter of a labor activist, carries the Italian tradition into new worlds through her poetry. Selected by the poet herself, Pieces creates a picture of new possibilities created by language.]

 

Di Santo, Grace. The Eye is Single. Davidson, NC: Briarpatch Press, 1981,

[Judged the best poetry collection in North Carolina in 1982, this collection contains tributes to her mother and grandmother.]

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