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Reports & Studies
Biliography
on Italian American Literature & Culture
Compiled
by Fred L. Gardaphé, Professor of English at SUNY,
Stony Brook, N.Y.
Selected
Poetry
- Ciardi,
John. Homeward to America. New York: Holt, 1940.
- As
If: Poems New and Selected. New Brunswick, NJ:
Rutgers University Press, 1958.
-
The Achievement of John Ciardi: A Comprehensive
Selection of His Poems. Ed. Miller
Williams. Chicago: Scott Foresman, 1969.
- For
Instance. NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
1979.
- Selected
Poems. Fayettville: U. of Arkansas P., 1984.
- The
Birds of Pompeii. Fayettville: U. of Arkansas
P., 1985.
- Citino,
David. Last Rites and Other Poems. Columbus, OH: The
Ohio State University Press, 1980.
- The
Appassionata Doctrines. Cleveland State Poetry
Center, 1985.
- The
Gift of Fire. Fayettville: University of Arkansas
Press, 1986.
- Clements,
Arthur L. Common Blessings. Franklin Lakes, NJ: Lincoln
Spring Press, 1987.
- Corso,
Gregory. The Vestal Lady on Brattle and Other Poems.
Cambridge, MA: Richard Brukenfeld, 1955.
-
Selected Poems. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode,
1962.
-
D'Alfonso, Antonio. The Other Shore. Montreal: Guernica
Editions, 1988.
- Panick
Love, Montreal: Guernica Editions, 1992.
- di
Prima, Diane. This Kind of Bird Flies Backward. New
York: Totem Press, 1958.
- Selected
Poems. Plainfield, VT: North Atlantic Books, 1975.
- Pieces
of a Song. Selected Poems. San Francisco: City
Lights Books, 1990.
- Ferrini,
Vincent. No Smoke. Portland, ME: Falmouth Publishing
House, 1941.
- Injunction.
Lynn, MA: Sand Piper Press, 1943.
-
Know Fish. Stoors, CT: University of Connecticut
Press, 1980.
- Gilbert,
Sandra M. In the Fourth World: Poems. Birmingham:
University of Alabama Press, 1978.
- Emily's
Bread: Poems. New York: W. W. Norton, 1984.
- Gillan,
Maria Mazziotti. Flowers from the Tree of Night. Midland
Park, NJ: Chantry Press, 1982.
- Winter
Light. Midland Park, NJ: Chantry Press, 1985.
- The
Weather of Old Seasons. Merrick, NY: Cross-Cultural
Communications, 1989.
- Taking
Back My Name. San Francisco: malafemmina press,
1991.
- Where
I Come From. Toronto & New York: Guernica
Editions, 1995.
- Gioia,
Dana. Daily Horoscope. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press,
1986.
- Gioseffi,
Daniela. Eggs in the Lake. Brockport, NY: BOA Editions,
1979.
- Word
Wounds and Waterflowers. West Lafayette, IN: Bordighera,
Inc. 1995.
- Giovannitti,
Arturo. The Collected Poems of Arturo Giovannitti.
New York: Arno Press, 1975.
- Malanga,
Gerard. 22. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974.
- Incantations.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974.
- Devotions.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1976.
- Ten
Years After. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1977.
- Equal
Time. Binghamton, NY: Bellevue Press, 1979.
- Mariani,
Paul. Timing Devices: Poems. Boston: David R. Godine,
1979.
- Crossing
Cocytus and Other Poems. New York: Grove Press,
1982.
- Prime
Mover. New York: Grove Press, 1985.
- Parini,
Jay. Anthracite Country. New York: Random House, 1982.
- Town
Life: Poems. New York: Henry Holt, 1988.
- Rago,
Henry. A Sky of Late Summer. New York: Macmillan,
1963.
- Raptosh,
Diane. Just West of Now. Montreal: Guernica Editions,
1993.
- Romano,
Rose. Vendetta. San Francisco: Malafemmina press,
1992
- The
Wop Factor. Franklin Lakes, NJ: Lincoln Springs
Press, 1994.
- Scalapino,
Leslie. Considering How Exaggerated Music Is. San
Francisco: North Point, 1982.
- Sorrentino,
Gilbert. Selected Poems: Nineteen Fifty-Eight to Nineteen
Eighty. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1981.
-
Stefanile, Felix. A Fig Tree in America. New Rochelle,
NY: Elizabeth Press, 1970.
- East
River Nocturne. New Rochelle, NY: Elizabeth Press,
1976.
- In
That Far Country. W. Lafayette, Ind.: Sparrow
Press, 1982.
- Tagliabue,
John. Poems. New York: Harper, 1959.
- The
Great Day. Plainfield, IN: Alembic Press, 1984.
- Turco,
Lewis. First Poems. Francestown, NH: Golden Quill
Press, 1960.
- Pocoangelini.
Northampton, MA: Despa Press, 1971.
- The
Shifting Web: New and Selected Poems 1957-1989.
Fayettville, AR: University of Arkansas Press,
1989.
- Tusiani,
Joseph. Rind and All: Fifty Poems. New York: The Monastine
Press, 1962.
- The
Fifth Season: Poems. New York: Obolensky, 1964.
- Gente
Mia and Other Poems. Stone Park, IL: Italian Cultural
Center, 1978.
- Viscusi,
Robert. An Oration Upon the Most Recent Death of Christopher
Columbus. W. Lafayette, IN: VIA Folios, 1993.
- Vitiello,
Justin. Vanzetti's Fish Cart. Lewiston, NY: The Mellen
Poetry Press, 1991.
Selected
Novels
- Anania,
Michael. The Red Menace. New York: Thunder's Mouth
Press, 1984.
- Ardizzone,
Tony. Heart of the Order. New York: Henry Holt &
Co, 1986.
- Anania,
Michael. The Red Menace. New York: Thunder's Mouth
Press, 1984.
- Arleo,
Joseph. The Grand Street Collector. New York: Walker
and Co, 1970.
- Barolini,
Helen. Umbertina. New York: Seaview, 1979.
-
Bryant, Dorothy Calvetti. Miss Giardino. Berkeley,
CA: Ata Books, 1978.
- Cavallo,
Diana. A Bridge of Leaves. New York: Atheneum, 1961.
- Cuomo,
George. Family Honor. Garden City, NY: Doubleday,
1983.
-
D'Agostino, Guido. Olives on the Apple Tree. New York:
Doubleday, 1940.
- DeCapite,
Michael. Maria. New York: The John Day Co, 1943.
- DeCapite,
Raymond. The Coming of Fabrizze. New York: David McKay
Co., 1960.
- DeLillo,
Don. Americana. 1971. New York: Penguin, 1989.
- DeRosa,
Tina. Paper Fish. Chicago: The Wine Press, 1980.
- de Vries, Rachael Guido. Tender Warriors. Ithica,
N.Y.: Firebrand, 1989.
-
di Donato, Pietro. Christ in Concrete. 1939. New York:
Signet, 1993.
- Fante,
John. Wait Until Spring, Bandini. 1938. Santa Barbara,
CA: Black Sparrow, 1983.
- Ferro,
Robert. The Family of Max Desir. New York: NAL-Dutton.
1983.
-
Forgione, Louis. The River Between. New York: E.P.
Dutton & Co., 1924.
-
Fumento, Rocco. Devil by the Tail. New York: Alfred
A. Knopf, 1954.
-
Gioseffi, Daniela. The Great American Belly Dance.
New York: Doubleday, 1977.
- Hendin,
Josephine Gattuso. The Right Thing to Do. Boston:
David Godine,1988.
- LaPolla,
Garibaldi M.
-
The Fire in the Flesh. New York: The Vanguard
Press, 1931.
- The
Grand Gennaro. New York: The Vanguard Press,1935.
-
LaPuma, Salvatore. A Time for Wedding Cake. New York:
W.W. Norton, 1991.
-
Lentricchia, Frank. Johnny Critelli and The Knifemen.
New York, Scribners, 1996.
- Mangione,
Jerre
- Night
Search. New York: Crown Publishing Co., Inc.,1965.
- The
Ship and the Flame. New York: A.A. Wyn, Inc.,1948.
- Marotta,
Kenny. A Piece of Earth. New York: William Morrow,
1985.
- Maso,
Carole. Ghost Dance. San Francisco: North Point Press,
1986.
- Mirabelli,
Eugene. The World at Noon. Montreal: Guernica, 1994.
-
Monardo, Anna. The Courtyard of Dreams. New York:
Doubleday, 1993.
- Morreale,
Ben. Monday Tuesday, Never Come Sunday. Plattsburgh,
NY: Tundra Books, 1977.
- Pagano,
Joseph.
-
Golden Wedding. New York: Random House, 1943.
-
Out of Place. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1970.
- Parini,
Jay. The Patch Boys. New York: Holt, 1986.
- Pola,
Antonia. Who Can Buy the Stars. New York: Vantage
Press, 1957.
- Puzo,
Mario. The Fortunate Pilgrim. New York: Atheneum,
1964.
- Rimanelli,
Giose. Benedetta in Guysterland. Montreal: Guernica
Editions, 1993.
-
Rossi, Agnes. Split Skirt. New York: Random House,
1994.
- Savarese,
Julia. The Weak and the Strong. New York: G.P. Putnam's,
1952.
- Sorrentino,
Gilbert. Aberration of Starlight. 1980. New York:
Penguin, 1981.
-
Tomasi, Mari.
- Deep
Grow the Roots. Philadelphia,: J.B. Lippincott,
Co., 1940.
-
Like Lesser Gods. 1949. Shelburne, VT: New England
Press: 1988.
Selected
Autobiographies and Memoirs
- Barolini,
Hellen. Chiaroscuro: Essays of Identity. Madison,
Wisconsin. The University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.
- Covello,
Leonard and Guido D'Agostino. The Heart is the Teacher.
New York: McGraw Hill, 1958.
- Cuomo,
Mario M. Diaries of Mario M. Cuomo. New York: Random
House, 1984.
- D'Angelo,
Pascal. Son of Italy. New York: Macmillan, 1924.
- DeSalvo,
Louise. Vertigo. New York: Dutton, 1996.
- di
Prima, Diane.
-
Memoirs of a Beatnik. 1969. San Francisco: Last
Gasp Press, 1988.
- Recollections
of My Life as a Woman. New York: Viking, 1995.
Ets, Marie Hall.
-
Rosa: The Life of an Italian Immigrant. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1970.
- Lentricchia,
Frank. The Edge of Night. New York, Random House,
1994.
-
Lloyd, Susan Caperna. No Pictures in My Grave: A Spiritual
Journey in Sicily. San Francisco: Mercury House, 1992.
- Mangione,
Jerre.
- Mount
Allegro. 1943. New York: Harper and Row, 1989.
- A
Passion for Sicilians: The World around Danilo
Dolci. New Brunswick, N.J. Transaction Books,
1985.
-
Marzani, Carl.The Education of a Reluctant Radical:
Growing Up American, Book 2. New York: Topical
Books, 1993.
- The
Education of a Reluctant Radical: Roman Childhood,
Book 1. New York: Topical Books, 1992.
- The
Education of a Reluctant Radical: Spain, Munich
and Dying Empires, Book 3. New York: Topical Books,
1994.
- Napoli,
Joseph. A Dying Cadence: Memories of a Sicilian Childhood.
W. Bethesda, MD: Marna Press, 1986.
- Panunzio,
Constantine. The Soul of an Immigrant. New York: Macmillan,
1921.
- Pellegrini,
Angelo. Americans by Choice. New York: The Macmillan
Company, 1956.
- Scammacca,
Nat. Bye Bye America: Memories of a Sicilian-American.
Cross-Cultural Communications, 1986.
- Talese,
Gay. Unto the Sons. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
- Tonelli,
Bill. The Amazing Story of the Tonelli Family in America.
New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1994.
- Torgovnick,
Marianna DeMarco. Crossing Ocean Parkway: Readings
by an Italian American Daughter. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1994.
-
Valenti, Angelo. Golden Gate. New York: The Viking
Press, 1938.
- Viscusi,
Robert. Astoria. Montreal: Guernica, 1994.
Short
Fiction Collections
- Ardizzone,
Tony.
- The
Evening News. Athens, GA: University of Georgia
Press, 1986.
- Larabi's
Ox. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1992.
-
Taking it Home: Stories from the Neighborhood.
Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1995.
- Barolini,
Helen. The Dream Book: an Anthology of Writings by
Italian American Women. Madison, Wisconsin: The University
of Wisconsin Press, 1997.
- Bona,
Mary Jo. Ed. The Voices We Carry: Recent Italian/American
Women's Fiction. Montreal: Guernica Editions, 1994.
-
Bush, Mary. A Place of Light. New York: William Morrow,
1991.
- Calcagno,
Anne. Pray for Yourself. Evanston, IL: Tri-Quarterly
Books, 1993.
- Cuomo,
George. Sing Choirs of Angels. Garden City, NY: Doubleday,1969.
-
Fante, John. The Wine of Youth. Santa Rosa, CA: Black
Sparrow Press, 1985.
- LaPuma,
Salvatore. The Boys of Bensonhurst. Athens, GA: University
of Georgia Press, 1987.
- Manfredi,
Renee. Where Love Leaves Us. Iowa City, IA: University
of Iowa Press, 1994.
- Valerio,
Anthony. Valentino and the Great Italians, According
to Anthony Valerio. Montreal: Guernica Editions, 1994.
- Vitiello,
Justin. Confessions of A Joe Rock. Franklin Lakes,
NJ: Lincoln Springs, 1992.
Italian
American Studies
- de
Rosa, Tina. Paper Fish. The Feminist Press, 1996 (reprint).
- di
Donato, Pietro. Christ in Concrete. Signet, New York,
N.Y., 1993 (reprint).
- Gambino,
Richard. Blood of My Blood: The Dilemma of the Italian
Americans. Guernica, Toronto, Canada, 1996 (reprint).
- Hoobler,
Dorothy and Thomas. The Italian American Family Album.
Oxford University Press, New York, N.Y., 1994.
- Images:
A Pictorial History of Italian Americans. Center for
Migration Studies, New York, N.Y., 1986.
- Mangione,
Jerre and Ben Morreale. La Storia: Five Centuries
of the Italian American Experience. Harper Collins
Publishers, New York, N.Y., 1993.
- The
Big Book of Italian American Culture. Lawrence DiStasi
(Ed.). Sanniti Publications, Berkeley, Calif., 1996.
- The
Italian Americans. Allon Schoener. Macmillian Publishing
Company, New York, N.Y., 1987.
Of
Special Interest:
- Schlesinger,
Arthur M. Jr. The Disuniting of America: Reflections
on a Multicultural Society. W.W. Norton & Company,
New York, N.Y., 1992.
Selected
Bibliographic Resources
- Alfonsi, Ferdinando. Poeti Italo-Americani: Italo-American
Poets, a bilingual anthology. Catanzaro, Italy: Antonio
Carello Editore, 1985.
- Barolini, Helen. Ed. The Dream Book: An Anthology of
Writings by Italian American Women. New York: Schocken,
1985.
- Gardaphe, Fred L.
- Dagoes Read: Tradition and the Italian/American Writer.
Toronto and New York: Guernica Editions, 1996.
- The Italian-American Writer: An Essay and Annotated
Checklist. Spencertown, NY: Forkroads Press, 1995.
- Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution
of Italian/American Narrative. Raleigh Durham, NC:
Duke University Press, 1996.
- Green,
Rose Basile. The Italian-American Novel. Cranbury, NJ:
Associated University Press, 1974.
- Peragallo, Olga. Italian-American Authors and Their
Contribution to American Literature. New York: S.F.
Vanni, 1949.
- Porcari, Serafino. "Italian American Fiction: A
Selected Bibliography of Novels, Short Stories and Juvenile
Fiction, 1950-1993." Italian Americana. 12.1(Fall/Winter,
1993): 146-173.
- Tamburri, Anthony J. Paolo Giordano and Fred L. Gardaphe,
Eds. From the Margin: Writings in Italian Americana.
West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1991.
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