Robert Viscusi: 3 books
by Robert Viscusi
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
In these poems, objects are occasions in outline. Dogs, cats, pianos, cappuccino, hair dye, snowshoes, parsley, and black raspberries do not simply lie there. They act upon one another and upon us. They demonstrate the laws of time. One birthday is a hundred birthdays. One city disappears into another. {Guernica Editions}
by Robert Viscusi
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
An experiment in what the author terms "speculative history," this novel tracks the movements of a man haunted by the spirit of his deceased mother and dogged by the notion that Astoria - the Italian neighborhood in Queens where his mother grew up in the 1920s - is the true capital of the...
Italoamericana
The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
To appreciate the life of the Italian immigrant enclave from the great heart of the Italian migration to its settlement in America requires that one come to know how these immigrants saw their communities as colonies of the mother country. Edited with extraordinary skill, Italoamericana: The Literature...