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Don't tell mama!: the Penguin book of Italian American writing
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Penguin Books
Publication Date
2002.
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English
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Table of Contents
From the Book
Introduction: Why Don't Tell Mama! The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing?
Explanatory Notes and Caveats to the Introduction / Hugo Barreca
/ Flavia Alaya
From Under the Rose: A Confession
/ Carol Bonomo Albright, Elvira Di Fabio
"Introduction to Rocchietti's Lorenzo and Oonalaska"
Selections, Lorenzo and Oonalaska (1835)
/ George Anastasia
"Sinatra's 'Associations' with the Mob"
/ Tony Ardizzone
"Holy Cards," from Taking It Home: Stories from the Neighborhood
/ David Baldacci
From Wish You Well
/ Helen Barolini
"Buried Alive by Language," from Chiaroscuro: Essays of Identity
From Umbertina
"Classic and Good," from More Italian Hours and Other Stories
/ Regina Barreca
"My Grandmother, A Chicken, and Death," from Too Much of a Good Thing Is Wonderful
/ Joy Behar
"My Life in Funeral Parlors," from Joy Shtick: Or What Is the Existential Vacuum and Does It Come with Attachments?
/ Mary Jo Bona
From Claiming a Tradition: Italian American Women Writers
/ Dorothy Bryant
From Miss Giardino
/ Anne Calcagno
"Story of My Weight," from Pray for Yourself and Other Stories
/ Phyllis Capello
"Careless Love: How Women Get to Hell"
/ Nancy Caronia
From "Macaronis," from Paper Napkins
/ Grace Cavalieri
"Grandmother," from Poems: New and Selected
/ Diana Cavallo
From A Bridge of Leaves
/ Thomas Centolella
"Ossi Dei Morti," from Terra Firma
"Small Acts," from Terra Firma
/ John Ciardi
"True or False," from The Birds of Pompeii
"Useless Knowledge," from The Birds of Pompeii
"The Evil Eye," from The Collected Poems of John Ciardi
"In Place of a Curse," from The Collected Poems of John Ciardi
"On Flunking a Nice Boy out of School," from The Collected Poems of John Ciardi
"Statement," from The Collected Poems of John Ciardi
/ Rita Ciresi
"Lifelines," from Mother Rocket
/ Robert Corrente
"Ellis Island"
/ Gregory Corso
"Youthful Religious Experiences," from Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit
/ Peter Covino
"Poverty of Language"
"Infidel"
/ George Cuomo
From Family Honor: An American Life
/ Joseph Cuomo
"The First Night of the Wake"
/ Don DeLillo
From Underworld
/ Lina del Tinto Demarsky
From Leaven of the Pharisees: The Dark Side of Italian-American Life
/ Mary Russo Demetrick
"I study Italian," from First Pressing
"I stash treasures," from Italian Notebook
/ Tina De Rosa
From Paper Fish
/ Louise DeSalvo
From Vertigo: A Memoir
From Breathless
/ Carole DeSanti
From "Ars Longa, Vita brevis?"
/ Rachel Guido deVries
From Tender Warriors
/ Pietro di Donato
From Christ in Concrete
/ W.S. Di Piero
"The Depot," from Shadows Burning
"Sabbioneta to Parma," from The Dog Star
/ Diane di Prima
From Recollections of My Life as a Woman
/ John Fante
From The Brotherhood of the Grape
"Hail Mary," from Dago Red
From Wait Until Spring, Bandini
/ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"The Old Italians Dying," from These Are My Rivers
/ Robert Ferro
From The Family of Max Desir
/ Camille Lavieri Forman
From A Perfect Time for Butterflies
/ Rocco Fumento
From Tree of Dark Reflection
/ Richard Gambino
From Blood of My Blood: The Dilemma of the Italian-Americans
/ Fred Gardaphe
From The Italian-American Writer: An Essay and an Annotated Checklist
/ Sandra M. Gilbert
"The Tidal Wave," from Kissing the Bread: New and Selected Poems, 1969-1999
"Mafioso," from Kissing the Bread
"Tailors," from Kissing the Bread
/ Maria Mazziotti Gillan
"Opening the Door: 19th Street, Paterson," from Things My Mother Told Me
"Secrets," from Things My Mother Told Me
/ Dana Gioia
"Cleared Away," from The Gods of Winter
"Money," from The Gods of Winter
"Planting a Sequoia," from The Gods of Winter
/ Daniela Gioseffi
"For Grandma Lucia La Rosa, 'Light the Rose, '" from Word Wounds and Water Flowers
"American Sonnets for My Father," from Word Wounds and Water Flowers
"Woman with Tongue Sculpted in Cheek," from Eggs in the Lake
/ Arturo Giovannitti
"Anniversary I," from The Collected Poems of Arturo Giovannitti
/ Edvige Giunta
"Litania for My Mother's Hands"
/ John Glavin
From "MANAYUNK: Growing Up in Philadelphia During and After the War"
/ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
"Godfather II: Of Families and Families," from Off Center
From An Accidental Autobiography
/ Josephine Gattuso Hendin
"Who Will Marry You Now?"
/ Joanna Clapps Herman
"The Discourse of un' Propria Paparone"
/ Evan Hunter
From The Paper Dragon
From The Blackboard Jungle
From "The Kiss"
/ Albert Innaurato
From Ulysses in Traction
/ Marisa Labozzetta
"After Victory"
/ Wally Lamb
"Food and Fatalism"
/ Garibaldi M. Lapolla
From The Grand Gennaro
/ Salvatore La Puma
"Wear It in Good Health," from The Boys of Bensonhurst
"First Cousins," from Teaching Angels to Fly
/ Maria Laurino
From "Words," from Were You Always an Italian? Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America
/ Jay Leno, Bill Zehme
From Leading with My Chin
/ Frank Lentricchia
From "Sitdown at the Heartland Hotel," from Lucchesi and the Whale
/ Jerre Mangione
From Mount Allegro
/ Jerre Mangione, Ben Morreale
From La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience
/ Mary Ann Mannino
"Your Children Are Your Children, but Your Wife Is Just a Good Cigar"
/ Paul Mariani
"Duet," from The Great Wheel
"Show & Tell," from Salvage Operations
"The Old Men Are Dying," from Salvage Operations
/ Carole Maso
"The Lion's Head," from The Art Lover
"Friend," from The Art Lover
/ Christine Palamidessi Moore
From "The Virgin's Nose" (or Picking Up a Piece of the Pieta), from The Virgin Knows
/ Ben Morreale
From The Loss of the Miraculous
/ George Panetta
From We Ride a White Donkey
From Viva Madison Avenue!
/ Paul Paolicelli
From Dances with Luigi: A Grandson's Determined Quest to Comprehend Italy and the Italians
/ Joseph Papaleo
"The Shylock's Wedding," from Italian Stories
/ Jay Parini
"Grandmother in Heaven," from Town Life
"1913," from Anthracite Country
"The Miner's Wake," from Anthracite Country
"Ida Parini (1890-1976)," from House of Days
From The Apprentice Lover
/ Gianna Patriarca
"Someday I Will Read 'Dover Beach, '" from Ciao, Baby
"Perfect Love," from Daughters for Sale
/ Sadie Penzato
From "The Movies," from Growing Up Sicilian and Female
/ Lucia Perillo
"Canticle from the Book of Bob"
"Lost Innocence of the Potato Givers," from The Body Mutinies
"Long Time Too Long," from The Oldest Map with the Name America: New and Selected Poems
/ Mario Puzo
From The Godfather
From The Fortunate Pilgrim
/ Rose Quiello
"Dedicated to an Old Friend Whose Kindness I Shall Never Forget"
/ Giose Rimanelli
From Benedetta in Guysterland: A Liquid Novel
/ Ray Romano
From Everything and a Kite
/ Agnes Rossi
From The Quick
/ Mary Jo Salter
"Video Blues," from A Kiss in Space: Poems
/ Mary Saracino
From "Ravioli and Rage"
/ Jeanne Schinto
From Huddle Fever: Living in the Immigrant City
/ Chris Mellie Sherman
"How to Marry an Italian-American Man"
/ Felix Stefanile
"The Veteran," from The Dance at St. Gabriel's
/ Gay Talese
From Unto the Sons
/ Mari Tomasi
From Like Lesser Gods
/ Lewis Turco
"Failed Fathers," from The Shifting Web
/ Anthony Valerio
"The Widows," from Conversation with Johnny
"Song of the Castrato," from Conversation with Johnny
/ L.D. Ventura, S. Shevitch
From Misfits and Remnants
/ Robert Viscusi
From Astoria
/ Octavia Waldo
From A Cup of the Sun.
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Contributors
Barreca, Regina editor, writer of introduction
ISBN
014200247
9780142002476
9780142002476
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