{"product_id":"wild-dreams-the-best-of-italian-americana-9780823229109","title":"Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian Americana","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor more than thirty years, the journal Italian Americana has been home to the writers who have sparked an extraordinary literary explosion in Italian-American culture. Across twenty-five volumes, its poets, memoirists, story-tellers, and other voices bridged generations to forge a brilliant body of expressive works that help define an Italian-American imagination. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWild Dreams \u003c\/i\u003eoffers the very best from those pages: sixty-three pieces--fiction, memoir, poetry, story, and interview--that range widely in style and sentiment, tracing the arc of an immigrant culture's coming of age in America. What stories do Italian Americans tell about themselves? How do some of America's best writers deal with complicated questions of identity in their art? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOrganized by provocative themes--Ancestors, The Sacred and the Profane, Love and Anger, Birth and Death, Art and Self--the selections document the evolution of Italian-American literature. From John Fante's \"My Father's God,\" his classic story of religious subversion and memoirs by Dennis Barone and Jerre Mangione to a brace of poets, selected by Dana Gioia and Michael Palma, ranging from John Ciardi, Jay Parini, and Mary Jo Salter to George Guida and Rachel Guido de Vries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere are also stories alive with the Italian folk tradition (Tony Ardizzone and Louisa Ermelino), and others sleekly experimental (Mary Caponegro, Rosalind Palermo Stevenson). Other pieces--including an unforgettable interview with Camille Paglia--are Italian-American takes on the culture at large.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carol Bonomo Albright\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823229109\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2008 pg. 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/19\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarol Bonomo Albright is editor in chief of \u003ci\u003eItalian Americana\u003c\/i\u003e and former vice-president of the American Italian Historical Association. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJoanna Clapps Herman is an ward-winning critic, short-story writer, and poet, and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eOur Roots Are Deep with Passion: Italian-American Creative Nonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e. She teaches in the Masters in Writing program at Manhattanville College and lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44233581166707,"sku":"9.78082E+12","price":56.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_75a5dc51-5f6d-4809-afcd-7f2bb52dfcc4.jpg?v=1768744277","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/wild-dreams-the-best-of-italian-americana-9780823229109","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}