Poetry 4

An Annotated Bibliography of Italian American Studies

Poetry

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Gillan, Maria Mazziotti. Flowers from the Tree of Night. Midland Park, NJ: Chantry Press, 1982.

---. Winter Light. Midland Park, NJ: Chantry Press, 1985.

---. The Weather of Old Seasons. Merrick, NY: Cross-Cultural Communications, 1989.---. Taking Back My Name. San Francisco: Malafemmina press, 1991.

---. Where I Come From: Selected and New Poems. Toronto: Guernica, 1995.
[Gillan has become a leading voice of the Italian-American woman's experience. The theme of Italian-American ethnicity is woven into all these collections.]

Gioia, Dana. Daily Horoscope. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1986.

---. The Gods of Winter. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1991.
[Gioia's return to traditional formalism includes a number of poems which identify connections to his ancestral culture.]

Gioseffi, Daniela. Eggs in the Lake. Brockport, NY: BOA Editions, 1979.

---. Word Wounds and Water Flowers. West Lafayette, IN: Bordighera, Inc. 1995.
[From her earliest poems to her latest, Gioseffi has never stopped advocating the need for both self- and other-acceptance of Italians as a step towards ending sexism and racism in America.]
Giovannitti, Arturo. The Collected Poems of Arturo Giovannitti. New York: Arno Press, 1975.
[Truly a pioneer of Italian-American poetry and a patron saint of the working class, Giovannitti's work spoke to the world when no one cared about the immigrant worker.]

Greco, Joseph. Chianti Way II. Blawnox, PA: Zizzolara Publishers, 1986.
[Many of his poems speak of the price an Italian immigrant must pay to survive and succeed in America.]

Green, Rose Basile. Primo Vino. New York: A.S. Barnes and Co., 1974.

---. To Reason Why. Associated University Presses, n.d.
[A key historian of Italian-American literature, Basile celebrates her Italian roots in rhyme.]

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