- FEBRUARY 2018 -
Literature
Maria Mazziotti Gillan Poetry can save your life
by Maria Lisella Interview with the poet and untiring cultural promoter based at the Passaic County Community College, in New Jersey March 2017
50 shades of love
by Giulia Poli Disanto In his collection of poetry, Sunny Days & Sleepless Nights, Tiziano Thomas Dossena delves into the emotions and mystery of life. Between light and shade March 2017
The Italian spirit behind Wally Lamb’s bestsellers
by Maria Lisella An interview with the author, of Italian, German and British origin, whose novels have repeatedly topped The New York Times best-selling list.The Italian background has an essential role in his work, often ignored by the American mainstream media January 2017
Joseph Tusiani Poetry as rebirth
by Sergio D’Amaro A recently-published volume, A Clarion Call, collects his most intense verses, written after the stroke which the Apulian-American poet suffered in 2014, shortly after his 90th birthday.Verses from which emerge a sense of regeneration and vital impulse. In the wake of Svevo, Montale and Moravia, in whom suffering led to a more powerful vision of life May 2016
Ninety years of Helen Barolini
by Sergio D’Amaro The Italo-American writer celebrated her birthday at the end of 2015.Her work has given an essential contribution to female emancipation and that of non-privileged ethnic minorities in America.
Umbertina and The Dream Book her crucial works January 2016
Tusiani, poetry as a song of victory over fragility
by Sergio D’Amaro In Ad Maiorem Baculi Gloriam, the collection of Latin lyrics chosen and translated by Emilio Bandiera, dynamic new poems from the American-Apulian poet now in his nineties.An undaunted challenge to the darts of time and the relentless march of the seasons May 2015
Joseph Tusiani When translation is an art
by Sergio D’Amaro L’arte della traduzione poetica, the recently published anthology with two essays, edited by Cosma Siani, explores the beauty and the pleasure of letting English speakers enjoy Italian literature.From Dante to Montale, from Machiavelli to Alfieri; these are just a few of the “greats” translated by the Apulian American poet February 2015
Joseph Tusiani Ninety years of literature between Italy and America
by Sergio D’Amaro A special supplement of the magazine Frontiere celebrates the “eighteen splendors” of the Italian American poet, writer and translator.“The same yardstick for the tops of the skyscrapers and for the old cottages in his Gargano town” January 2014
The Yawning Rabbit River Chronicle, politically correct fable for children and adults
by Maria Lisella Interview with Janine L. Kimmel, author of the work together with the Italian illustrator, David Ceccarelli.The story of a courageous rabbit thief, a vulnerable tortoise, of people “with” and “without” umbrellas that tells of life and the importance of forgiveness and tolerance November 2013
Grace Cavalieri, Queen of Poetry in FM
by Maria Lisella A writer, poet, and journalist she considers herself first Italian and then American.To bring poetry to people is her mission: for 36 years she has successfully hosted the radio program The Poet and the Poem March 2013
