Books published by Bordighera Press

The name of Eugenio Colorni is quite familiar among the many intellectuals who knew Albert Hirschman. This is not true, however, of his work. The reason for this is that while Albert often spoke about his brother-in-law and close friend and acknowledged his influence on his own thinking, until now Eugenio's work, with one notable exception, has not been translated into English. Recently, however, "A Colorni-Hirschman International Institute" has begun publishing excerpts in English as part of a yearly dossier, "Long is the Journey. . . ," which is included on its website: www.colornihirschman.org. Building on this, Nicoletta Stame and I are now editing an initial sampling that reflects Eugenio's brilliance and ingenuity: a mini-anthology (which I hope will prove interesting and enjoyable) of texts taken mainly from a selection of Eugenio's political writings.

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. Italian American Studies. Talarico's true-life narratives inevitably remind you of your own best, half-buried memories.--Chicago Tribune Ross Talarico is a truly gifted poet.--James Wright Some say Ross Talarico has done the impossible.--Katie Couric In Ross Talarico's poems is distilled much of what has been best in poetry.--Donald Justice Ross Talarico has a rare talent: he captures the inner thoughts of 'ordinary' people and reveals their extraordinary visions.--Studs Terkel Talarico writes like a latter-day Wordsworth.--H.L. Hix

Literary Nonfiction. Italian Studies. Rita Watson's memories of family, traditions, and community reveal what truly nourishes people. At the heart of this book is a wise and gentle grandmother who savored life and taught others how to live with compassion and grace.--Olivia Kate Cerrone The National Organization of Italian American Women (NOIAW) honored Rita at our 2016 Epiphany awards. Her writing has helped preserve the traditions that our Italian parents and grandparents brought to this country.--Anne Marie D'Attelo These stories will hit a familiar chord whether or not you are Italian. Each makes you want to hurry to the next. Wait. Take time to savor the richness and warmth of each. Then read the how-to steps and write your own family memoir.--Ed Iannuccilli European grandmothers share important traits, a love of cooking and a love of family. I'm Armenian and yet, I see my own grandmothers as I read through stories which capture our heritage.--Stephen Kurkjian Reading ITALIAN KISSES as columns gave me a sense of the customs and culture of grandparents from 'the old country.' Now reading these in book form, along with photos and recipes, I feel a part of their rich heritage.--Dr. Mary-Lou Pardue

"Il compito è tanto ambizioso quanto chiaro: conferire all'Europa del Sud la capacità di esercitare un ruolo non subalterno dentro l'Unione. L'Italia dovrebbe capire che la partita della sua unità ormai la si gioca solo in questo sacchiere più ampio: la questione meridionale come questione mediterranea. Non si tratta di un'impresa da poco, dato che il cuore continentale d'Europa sembra ignorare la questione oppure sentire più forte il richiamo di altri punti cardinali."-Franco Cassano, Tre modi di vedere il Sud

Winner of the Bordighera Poetry Prize-The Lauria/Frasca Prize promotes the poetry of the Italian diaspora in English.

In the last three decades, Italian/American culture has at last experienced a veritable renaissance and has begun to be studied from diasporic, transnational, trans-lingual, and global perspectives by a growing number of scholars on both sides of the Atlantic. Working from an interdisciplinary standpoint, and taking as basis the latest developments in the field, the essays in this volume are meant as a contribution to the ongoing, collective effort at expanding and updating knowledge concerning Italian/American literature, cinema, and culture in their various articulations. They explore the effects that the texts' imaginary-often linked to the idea of space, mobility, and change-produces on our understanding of Italian/American culture. This knowledge can help construct a new narrative of Italian/American life, as well as provide a more complex understanding of American history and culture in a transnational context. As the international conference Re-Mapping Italian America. Places, Cultures, Identities (Roma Tre University, 2016) has made clear, it is high time to reformulate the notions of place, culture, and identity in order to arrive at a more dynamic definition of these concepts. This re-consideration allows for new paradigms, flexible enough to make sense of the most significant changes in the field of contemporary Italian/American studies and suggestive of additional future perspectives in Italian/American criticism.

MISSING MADONNAS begins with the lunar arrival of its author, Gil Fagiani, who throughout this collection explores mythical Madonnas, nonnas, and urban addiction and redemption for a portrait of a life lived in pain and triumph. Dedicated to his Orlandini family, this book, first posthumous, is the final in a trilogy-CHIANTI IN CONNECTICUT and STONE WALLS-from a first generation American whose poetry transcends the conventional visions of the post-war 50's, the turbulent 60's, and the bitter tenderness of a life that ended much too soon.

"And there was one more question posed to me, over and over again, mostly by my big-hearted, bull-headed, capa tosta of a father. It typically flew my way when the cyclone of rage and love and fear and affection ripped through the walls, shaking the everyday worlds . . . Who do you think you are?"

The odyssey recounted within these pages traverses time and space in order to bear witness to an individual's developing artistry and commitment to political activism. In doing so, Kento chronicles the ongoing dynamics involving the potential of rap music's Italianate permutations and the legacy of a progressive, left cultural politics-what Antonio Gramsci called the national-political-to renounce such societal ills as neo-fascism, xenophobic racism, and misogynistic violence plaguing twenty-first century Italy. Kento's sonic resistance offers a model in which an informed individual's action and artistry contribute to a larger movement.-Joseph Sciorra, from the introduction

Poetry. Music. Italian American Studies. forgetfulness / is food for gods / and words are too / so I sit on the sill / of this white window / and plan a house / with means I get / bricks I collect / and stare outside / anticipating works--from Father

Passati ormai dieci anni dal nostro primo incontro ad Erice e sei dalla nascita della Fondazione del Mediterranean Center for International Studies (MCIS), questa nuova raccolta di saggi presentati al convegno del 2017, continua il dialogo tra studiosi che operano in tre continenti diversi e che a maggio da cinque anni si confrontano su argomenti e su temi relativi a qualsiasi aspetto della cultura mediterranea.-dalla prefazione

Not being a man, I bleed like this. -Bhanu Kapil, "What is the shape of your body?"

I can think of no other writer who can better express the ine able sense of being born into the working poor before moving through di erent genres of living-hired factory hand, engineer, professor, poet, then back to hired academic hand-as he searches for a sense of the real through genres of writing-memoir, ction, poetry, criticism. Samuel Taylor's Hollywood Adventure is as engrossing as any written lived experience, only more so: a meditation on what it is not to be a Hollywood celebrity, war hero, or anyone of note, but a human trying to make it, and trying to make sense of "it" as a writer who can look back and see how much of our lives are composed by the constraints of storytelling we and our societies create. Samuel Taylor's Hollywood Adventure begins with poetics, but ends as philosophy.-STEVE TOMASULA, author of VAS: An Opera in Flatland and Once Human: Stories

THE FOREWORD BLUESWesli Court said I should write a book,A bunch of blues-enough to fill a book,And he'd design the cover. I said, "Look,If you'll write half of them, then I will chooseA ball-point pen, a felt-tip-I will chooseTo join you in a modicum of blues."And that's the reason, Reader, we are here-You, Wes and me-we three assembled hereAmong these turning leaves yellow and sere.We hope you'll think the words we write are fine,Our writing bold and dark, but our wordage fine . . . ,At least we hope you'll like the cover design.Envoy EpilogueGo, little book of sorrows, cares and woes,But Wesli's gone. Where? Only goodness knows.

OThis unique and remarkable catalogue may well represent the cornerstone of a long-needed Italian-American Archive, the entry point to the social, political, and literary micro-history of one of the largest migrations in modern times.ONPeter Carravetta, Alfonse M. D'Amato Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies, SUNY at Stony Brook.

Literary Nonfiction. Italian & Italian American Studies. History. Through contemporary culture and the philosophical lens of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Antonio Gramsci, Pasquale Verdicchio examines trends in nationalistic ideologies, immigrant culture, displacement, and Italian studies.

Fiction. At the beginning of the 20th century, as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein were on the rise to prominence, sealing America's literary status around the world, a crop of writers began to publish and offer insight into the often overlooked and disregarded corners of society. Labeled ethnic or immigrant, their work was marginalized, relegated to limited audiences where it would remain available to minimal exposure or otherwise lost to history and the passage of time. With our re-publication of MISS ROLLINS IN LOVE, we hope to rescue one such title from the bottomless pit of history. Garibaldi LaPolla along with Pietro di Donato and John Fante form the canon of the great Italian American novelists from the era. And in this novel, he tells the story of a young teacher, Amy Rollins, her orphan student, Donato Contini, and the complexities of the education system, teacher-student relationships, and the implications of romance and passion in the classroom.

Literary Nonfiction. History. Translated from the Italian by Sian Gibby. This collection of letters, diaries, and memoirs offers readers personal accounts of the realities of the war. We are taken beyond the grandiosity of war propaganda into the daily lives of soldiers fighting in the trenches.

Contributors to this work include Carmine di Biase, Giuseppe Antonio Camerino, Simone Castaldi, Elena Coda, Lois C. Dubin, Sylvie Duvernoy, Elvio Guagnini, Kay Bea Jones, Russell Scott Valentino, and Cristina Perissinotto.

Poetry. Joseph V. Ricapito is a professor of Spanish, Italian, and Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University and holds the Joseph S. Yenni Distinguished Chair for the Department of Italian Studies. He holds degrees from Brooklyn College, CUNY, University of Iowa, and a PhD in Romance Languages from the University of California at Los Angeles. He is the author of FLORENTINE STREETS AND OTHER POEMS, published by Bordighera and recently published his first novel, Fratelli: A Novel, with AuthorHouse of Bloomington, Indiana.

Mormino presents an overview of the history of Italians in Florida, creditingthe Italian-Americans with the state's growth and development.

"Federico F." is a semi-fictional novel that chronicles the last nine months of Italian film director Federico Fellini's life, from January to October 1993. Angelucci reveals how creatively Fellini treated personal events, as if they were screenplay ideas to be developed.