An Annotated Bibliography of Italian American Studies

Poetry

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Dragonette, Ree. This Is the Way We Wash Our Hands. New York: Calliope Publications, 1977.
[A prose poem by a daughter of Italian immigrant artists. Born in 1918, she died in 1979.]
 
Fama, Maria. Currents. Chicago: Adams Press, 1988.
[Fama's first collection of poetry which features poems on the Italian-American woman.]
 
---. Identification. San Francisco: malafemmina press, 1991.
[A chapbook in which Fama explores Italian and American cultures in an effort to create a sense of identity as a woman and as an ethnic through mass media and myth.]
 
---. Looking for Cover. Philadelphia: Incite to Riot Press, 1995.
[The latest collection of Fama's Italian-American poetry.]
 
Feraca, Jean. South From Rome: il Mezzogiorno. Monterey, KY: Larkspur Press, 1976.
[A collection of poetry by a daughter of Italian immigrants covering her experience growing up in America and then travelling through Italy.]
 
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. Endless Life: Selected Poems. New York: New Directions, 1981.
[Ferlinghetti's "Old Italians Dying," has become the premier immigrant swan song. This pioneer of American paperback publishing writes poems that often appear on the Op-Ed pages of newspapers.]
 
Ferrarelli, Rina. Dreamsearch. San Francisco: malafemmina press, 1992.
[Ferrarelli, an immigrant to the United States at the age of 15, explores the mindscape that forms the border between Italy and America through words that reveal the sunlight and shadows of reality and dreams.]

Ferrini, Vincent. No Smoke. Portland, ME: Falmouth Publishing House, 1941.

---. Injunction. Lynn, MA: Sand Piper Press, 1943.

---.Tidal Wave. New York: Great Concord, 1946.

---. Know Fish. Stoors, CT: University of Connecticut Press, 1980.
[Ferrini carries on the worker-writer tradition of Arturo Giovannitti. A labor activist, Ferrini, uses the experience of work and injustice to dignify the world of American workers.]
 
Gabriel, Daniel. Sacco and Vanzetti: A Narrative Long Poem. Brooklyn, NY: Gull Books,1983.
[The Sacco and Vanzetti story in verse.]
 
Galassi, Jonathan. Morning Run: Poems. Latham, NY: Pris Review Editions, 1988.
[Strongly connected to contemporary Italy, many of these poems speak to a reconnection of Galassi's Italian roots.]
 
Gangemi, Kenneth. Lydia/Corroboree. Paris: Christian Borgois, 1987.
[Gangemi's poetry, often reminiscent of Gertrude Stein's sense of nonsense, touches on his trips to Italy and through Italian America.]

Gilbert, Sandra M. In the Fourth World: Poems. Birmingham: University of Alabama Press, 1978.

---.  Emily's Bread: poems. New York: W. W. Norton, 1984.

---. Blood Pressure. New York: W. W. Norton, 1988.
[One of America's top feminist literary historians and critics, Gilbert reconsiders her ethnic experience through much of her poetry.]

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