This volume consists of a selection of 14 scholarly works examining the urban experience of Italian Americans in small towns and big cities, out of the approximately 60 stimulating papers presented at the 41st annual Conference of the American Italian Historical Association, held in 2008.
Poetry. "Dennis Barone pays attention. His keen eye and ear let the luminousness of the ordinary detail light up even his most abstract ruminations, just as his sly humor lies in wait behind the most earnest of them. In these poems, you will for the first time smell 'the oil / leaking from the car that has stopped at / that stop light just long enough to note / that "so much depends"'"--Barry Schwabsky.
The poetry of Wallace Stevens has inspired generations of poets of every school. This book assembles a variety of poems, by a range of poets, inspired by Stevens' life and work. It includes poems that exhibit the torque and feel of his poetry.
The novels of Paul Auster have captured the imagination of readers and the admiration of many critics of contemporary literature. In "Beyond the Red Notebook, " the first book devoted to the works of Auster, an international group of scholars provide a rich and insightful examination of Auster's writings.