Machine generated contents note: Good-night Federico. Italian Women -- My Birth -- Daughters -- Mzy/Maggio -- Maggio/May -- Contrasti -- For Roberto Pisapia -- Perhaps -- Returning -- Reasons -- The Garden -- Sunday and You -- For Grandma, in bed, waiting -- The Poet -- The Gift -- Dolce-Amaro -- November 16, 1983 -- College Street, Toronto -- Nina, la Matta -- Mary -- Grace Street Summer -- Sunday and You -- Getting Things Right -- The Old Man -- Il Vecchio -- Beautiful Things -- For Gia at Bedtime -- From: Daughters for Sale -- Loreta, la Calda -- Daughters for Sale -- The Last Confession -- La Vacandin -- Her Son -- The Bride's Return -- The Last Season -- My Father's Cane -- Ladies of the Caravelle -- Perfect Love -- Donna/Woman -- Cuore -- Ode to Balls -- I Might Have Been Sicilian -- A Mother Poem -- Winters -- My Husband -- From: Ciao Baby -- Simple Heart -- My English Love -- Five Small Lives -- Two Fat Girls -- My Nephew -- Notes on Aging -- Good Friday, The Passion -- The Other Woman -- Second Language -- Figli Canadesi -- Picasso had Paris -- Ena and the Sleeping Giant -- I Wish I Were a Poet -- One More Time -- We Are The Good Children -- Ciao, Baby! -- St. Joseph's Girls -- From: What My Arms Can Carry -- What My Arms Can Carry -- Street of Widows -- My Mother Wants -- The Neighbourhood is Changing -- A Song for Saro -- Perche Ti Amo -- Woman Behind the Wall -- Saint Joseph -- Mothers and Breasts -- The Dandelion -- Maggie/Peggie -- The Women I Am -- Sempre -- On a Country Road -- The Anniversary, Nov. 16 -- Marzo 21/2003 -- Bella -- Ceprano/Carnevale -- Ritorno -- From: The Invisible Woman -- Invisible -- Spanish Steps -- Piazza Navona -- From: My Etruscan Face -- My Etruscan Face -- Sono ciociara -- I am ciociara (translation) -- Very Very Venice -- The Bottom Drawer -- Italia -- Summer in Georgian Bay -- Poppies Are Red -- That Night There Was Snow -- Another November Visiting You -- Zia Assunta -- Prodigal Daughter Returns -- Peeling Onions -- Escape Land -- They Call Me Teacher, Teacher -- A Sausage for Christmas -- Immacolata -- My Common Shirt -- Miscellaneous Lives -- We Are Still the Wops -- Cappuccino to Go -- The Gatto Nero -- When Women Talk -- A Whore in the Confessional -- The Dressmaker -- Lupins and Tangerines -- Kapiti -- I Should Have Walked into Your Garden -- How Temporary We Are -- Il Giglio -- Secrets -- Ontario -- from: Too Much Love -- Too Much Love -- My Name is Giovanna Berta -- Translating the Sea -- Silenzio -- At This Age -- Birthday Poem Wish -- Love Disguised -- Allow Me -- Mamma at 87 -- Reading the Women Who Loved -- Clever Girl -- The Boy Loves You -- Accept Me -- Just Be -- A New Dare -- Another Road -- The Clothesline -- Tony's Car -- Hagar -- A Girl Made of Lavender -- Risorgimento -- The Fall of Rome -- Prince Edward County -- Pier 21/Halifax, Nova Scotia -- When You're 64 -- The Garden on Kaka Street -- Otaki Hills -- Poets of Water and Wilderness -- Procida, the Island -- The Turnabout -- L'Altra Italia Lives Here -- The Gambler's Daughter -- From: Donne Italiane ed Altre Tragedie (Italian translation) -- 'Sta vita -- Io -- From: To The Men Who Write Goodbye Letters -- In That Back Room -- Lower East Side -- Reading Ferlinghetti in North Beach -- The Jump -- Prodigies -- Posers -- To the Men Who Write Goodbye Letters -- Charming the Demons -- Mean Poems for my Father -- Dismantling the Dollhouse -- The Medieval Tower -- They Tell Me -- Fading -- On Cumberland -- We Remain -- Dentr a 'sta cucina -- Inside This Kitchen -- Not So Catholic -- First Love -- Good Daughters -- This Is My Pain -- Ten Days in January -- Language -- Lingua (translation) -- The Last Room -- Dressing Gown -- The Garden Mother Left Me -- Identity -- Surrender -- Die So I Can Write About It -- Sometimes It Gets Very Dark -- January Twenty-One -- Locking the Door -- New poems / 2020 -- Quarantined -- Rome/2020/The Lost Year -- Re-visiting the Street of Widows -- Kapiti Island -- City Bench -- In the Thrift Shop -- Modern Wedding in a City Loft -- These Sad Days -- All We Are Is a Short Story -- A Long Long Time -- The Umbrella Pines -- Christmas/Natale -- County Fireflies -- Good-night Federico.
Summary:
"This book contains selections from Gianna Patriarca's previously published poetry books, as well as a number of new poems. It is a collection written by a woman in a time when the support and the encouragement was as limited as visibility. In many ways it is a collection of verses written as an act of survival and acknowledgement of existence."-- Provided by publisher.
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