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| ABANDONED PLACES [Tonio Guerra] Tonino Guerra is best known for his work in film with directors that include Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, the Taviani Brothers, and Andrey Tarkovsky. In this collection of poetry, Italian screenwriter and poet Tonion Guerra captures the harshness and the magic of a culture and language which have disappeared. The original poems, written in the dialect of the montanari, the mountaineers of the Apennine mountains of Romagna, reflect the mixture of sardonic humour and whimsy for which Guerra is known in his work in film. { 144pp, 115x195mm, February 1999; PB, £8.99, 1550710303:9781550710304 , Guernica Editions } |
| ACCADEMIA [Giose Rimanelli] After the fascinating liquid novel, Benedetta in Guysterland, which won the American Book Award in 1994, Giose Rimanelli now presents us a new novel about academic life. Accademia deals with the day-to-day angst in a major American university. Stories of love relationships among nymphets wives and student lovers (hetero/homosexual) unfold amid the struggles for personal power in the realm of higher education. Accademia is the book of one who has experienced life at its deepest levels, the book of a moralist. Giose Rimanelli gained international fame with some of his novels during the 1950s, translated from the Italian in many languages and also made into movies and radio plays. He has lived in both the U.S.A. and Canada and has taught in major universities. { 174pp, 130x205mm, February 1998; PB, £8.99, 155071015X:9781550710151 , Guernica Editions } |
| ADELE WISEMAN : Essays on Her Works [Ruth Panofsky (ed)] This collection of essays details the complexity and diversity of author Adele Wiseman. Writing in several different genres, from children's books to plays and essays, Wiseman became one of the most renowned Canadian authors and won Canada's Governor General's award for her first novel, 'The Sacrifice'. With the success of her first novel at the age of 28, Wiseman came to prominence in both the United States and Canada quite early. Her second novel, 'Crackpot', about prostitution, has been the subject of current critical debate. { 170pp, 110x180mm, January 2002; PB, £5.99, 1550711350:9781550711356 , Guernica Editions } |
| ADJACENCIES : Minority Writing in Canada [Lianne Moyes, Licia Canton & Domenic A Beneventi (eds)] Canada has often been described as a patchwork of cultural and linguistic communities that continually intersect with one another in interesting and provocative ways. This collection of essays provides a forum in which ethnicity and literature are explored from a broad range of critical perspectives including feminism, psychoanalysis, cinema, cultural studies, history, gender and native studies. They do so by addressing the many ways in which minority writers not only create sense of community and ethnic specificity but also open avenues of discourse to adjacent communities. Offering readings of such diverse writers as Austin Clarke, Caterina Edwards, Mary di Michele, Kristjana Gunnars, Nadine Ltaif, Robert Majzels, Michael Ondaatje, F.G. Paci, Marguerite-A. Primeau, Régine Robin and Aritha van Herk, this collection discusses and debates the issues pertinent to contemporary ethnic/minority studies in Canada. { 256pp, 140x215mm, November 2002; PB, £11.99, 1550711679:9781550711677 , Guernica Editions } |
| AFTER THE END [David Sobelman] 'After the End' is a sequence of linked narrative poems, revealing a philosophical encounter between various necessary polarities: eye and ear, faith and reason, mythos and logos, essence and existence, as well as the connecting bridge, the corpus callosum, between them. The bridge is the a priori medium of language or the crossing from silence to speech and writing, but it's also a metaphysical bridge between a poet's being and the life of his soul. { 96pp, 140x215mm, November 2006; PB, £8.99, 1550712462:9781550712469 , Guernica Editions } |
| AKNOS [Fulvio Caccia] This selection is the first-time translation of Caccia's poetry which appeared in the original French-language Aknos, winner of the Governor General's Award of Canada in 1994. { 60pp, August 1998; PB, £5.99, 1550710486:9781550710489 , Guernica Editions } |
| AL PURDY : Essays on His Works [Linda Rogers (ed)] Al Purdy struggled initially as a poet, yet persevered and thrived along with his burgeoning Canadian culture. This collection of essays mixes literary appreciation with qualification, portraying Purdy's growth as an artist-which so paralleled that of his nation, along with his self-absorption and that of his country as they gazed at themselves in the mirror of the 20th century. The poet's candour and the sweeping canvas of his Canada are inspiring. { 164pp, 105x175mm, July 2002; PB, £5.99, 1550711628:9781550711622 , Guernica Editions } |
| ALDEN NOWLAN -- ESSAYS ON HIS WORKS [Edited by Gregory M Cook] Alden Nowlan, born near Windsor, Nova Scotia, in 1933, was a poet, journalist, novelist, and playwright who overcame the disadvantages of poverty and a mere four grades of education, to publish more than twenty books and three plays in his fifty years. His writing earned him two honorary degrees, a Guggenheim fellowship and Canada's prestigious Governor General's Award for Poetry in 1968. That same year he was appointed writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick, a position he held until his death in 1983. This book examines Nowlan's bravery in accepting the limitations of his class and his art, as well as the myopia of the critical milieu in which his work was measured. Here is a glimpse of his Künstlerroman - the elements of his art and his humanity, which sees his reputation steadily developing internationally. Robert Bly says, "Alden Nowlan is the greatest Canadian poet of the twentieth century." Contributors include Geoffrey Cook, John Metcalfe, Paul Milton, Thomas R. Smith, David Adams Richards and Gregory M. Cook. Gregory M. Cook's latest book is Songs of the Wounded: New and Selected Poems (Black Moss, 2004). He resides in Saint John, New Brunswick. { 144pp, November 2006; PB, £8.99, 1550712543:9781550712544 , Guernica Editions } |
| ALL THAT LIES BETWEEN US [Maria Mazziotti Gillan] Here are presented a selection of poems where we find the geography of the heart's home -- not a physical but rather an emotional centre around which she constructs the story of her life. Her world is populated by memories of growing up in the 50s, her courtship and long marriage, husband's illness, and children. But at the centre is the woman she has become who struggles to deal with the complexities of love and the difficulties of achieving compassion and tenderness in the face of adversity. Brave, honest, beautiful, these poems help us to understand what it means to be human. { 87pp, 127x213mm, March 2007; PB, £8.99, 1550712616:9781550712612 , Guernica Editions } |
| ANCIENT MEMORIES, MODERN IDENTITIES [Filippo Salvatore] Ancient Memories, Modern Identities stands for pagan, peasant memories in a post-modern, urban North America. Second and third generation authors, young by adoption but old in their vision, express the phenomenon of migration as both physical displacement and indelible memory. { 188pp, 125x205mm, September 1999; PB, £11.99, 1550710575:9781550710571 , Guernica Editions } |
| AND LIGHT REMAINS [Isabella Colalillo-Katz] "In this new book, And Light Remains, Isabella Colalillo-Katz mobilises a poignant poesis to probe the divinities of the heart and its mnemonic trajectories. These poems are stark meditations, imagistic, hopeful and lyrical, on the paradigmatic nature of love and truth. They report the evocative experiences of a searching metaphysic that seeks to reconcile and restore what is lost on the human journey while celebrating what remains -- the indelible imprint of the soul through the language of the heart." -- Pier Giorgio Di Cicco. { 76pp, 140x215mm, November 2006; PB, £8.99, 1550712381:9781550712384 , Guernica Editions } |
| ANGELINA PROJECT [Frank Canino] On Easter Sunday afternoon 1911, Angelina Napolitano, a twenty-eight-year-old Italian mother of four, killed her husband with an axe as he lay asleep in their bedroom in Sault Ste. The Angelina Project is an extension of that event, in which four generations of women come to terms with the violence which has shaped them. The script moves between Toronto of today, the Sault in 1911, and the mythical world of Clytemnestra whose murder of her husband broke all taboos. The focal character is Amelia Covello, whose marriage and academic career are in danger. As she researched her past, she discovers the secrets and lies that have shaped her. This two-act play is based on actual trial records. { 150pp, 125x205mm, May 2000; PB, £8.99, 1550711091:9781550711097 , Guernica Editions } |
| ANTHOLOGY OF ITALIAN-CANADIAN WRITING [Joseph Pivato (ed)] Some translations from Italian and French, edited and with an introduction by Joseph Pivato. The most inclusive collection of its kind in North America, this anthology includes a wide variety of genres, from fiction and poetry to essays, plays, film scripts and memoirs. The more than fifty authors represented come from across Canada and have backgrounds in all regions of Italy. Organised in three sections: Writers from Our Past; Writers for Our Time; and Ironies of Identity -- the book presents both published and unpublished excerpts from the work of writers of various ages and literary styles, providing a wide and heterogeneous view of the writing of Canadians of Italian descent. { 388pp, December 1998; PB, £11.99, 1550710699:9781550710694 , Guernica Editions } |
| ARITHA VAN HERK : Essays on Her Works [Christl Verduyn (ed)] In 1978, a young Canadian writer named Aritha van Herk captured international attention by winning the first Seal Books (Canada) First Novel Award for her story about a pig farmer called Judith. She was twenty-four years old then and she has been writing steadily ever since. This book presents five essays on her work. { 126pp, 110x175mm, May 2001; PB, £5.99, 1550711334:9781550711332 , Guernica Editions } |
| ARMS : New & Selected Poems [Laura Boss] In this collection of audacious and powerful poems, Laura Boss has continued and expanded her story of the complexity of survival in the increasingly dangerous world of contemporary relationship. Whether the poems deal with growing up, concepts of female and male beauty, relationships with her family or her lover, she writes with power and originality and an underlying humour that counterbalances and also emphasises the seriousness and great technical skill of this poet. REVIEW: "Audacious and honest, often gutsy..." -- The Word, Winter 2001. { 82pp, 130x205mm, November 1999; PB, £7.50, 1550710958:9781550710953 , Guernica Editions } |
| ARRANGIARSI : The Italian Immigration Experience in Canada [Roberto Perin & Franc Sturino (eds)] The term 'arrangiarsi' is normally defined as 'making do' or 'getting by'. This book marks the first attempt to provide a comprehensive treatment of the Italian presence in Canada, and to capture the experience of the Italian immigrants who helped to build this country. Through historical, literary, and artistic approaches, this collection of essays explores how these immigrants saw and were seen: what were their ambitions, their setbacks, their strategies for adapting to the new land. In addition to the editors, contributors include: the late Robert Harney , Bruno Ramirez, Gabriele Scardellato, Laurier Lacroix, Paul-André Linteau, Susan Iannucci, Nicoletta Serio, and William Boelhower. { 251pp, 110x180mm, December 2006; PB, £10.99, 1550712551:9781550712551 , Guernica Editions } |
| ASTORIA [Robert Viscusi] 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 neighbourhood in Queens where his mother grew up in the 1920s -- is the true capital of the world. In 1986, two years after his mother's death, the narrator travels from Paris to New York to Rome, unable to escape the shadow of Napoleon, the historical figure he now associates with his mother. Weaving theory upon theory in an attempt to break the hold of these visions, he finds that she represents the fury, rage, and unappeased desire of migration and the displaced people left in its wake. { 276pp, 105x180mm, November 2002; PB, £7.50, 1550711008:9781550711004 , Guernica Editions } |
| AT THE COPA [Marisa Labozzetta] With humour and poignancy, Marisa Labozzetta's stories expose the social and sexual turmoil of men and women in the time as she puts it 'the old age of youth.' In 'The Knife Lady,' a seemingly happily married suburbanite receives a jolt of sexual panic with the visit of a woman selling knives. In 'At the Copa,' an Italian American mother's legacy traps a daughter in her quest for sexual satisfaction and then, paradoxically, frees her. In 'The Tooth Healer,' a restless Jewish dentist on a visit to a bizarre charlatan discovers an unlikely cure to what's ailing him. And in 'After Victory' a star-crossed World War II couple meets again after fifty years with stunning results. Long recognised as one of the most talented chroniclers of Italian American experience -- the critic Kenneth Scambray called her novel 'Stay with Me, Lella', among the most forceful pieces of fiction written by an Italian American writer in decades -- Labozzetta here expands her range to prove herself a keen observer of the whole range of American experience. { 152pp, 125x205mm, December 2006; PB, £11.99, 1550712594:9781550712599 , Guernica Editions } |
| AT THE MOONBEAN CAFÉ [Malca Litovitz] Malca Litovitz stays in her poems with the arduous emotional path of her many attachments. She writes in a singular poetic voice of the groundlessness, the transitory nature of any relationship, and her wonder at the timeless quality of the traces love leaves in the mind and heart. 'At the Moonbeam Café' often deals with loss, ever present even in the happiest and most fulfilled instances the poems enact, but her joyousness, gentleness and wisdom, her caressing poetic voice and intimate address to the reader are authentic feelings beautifully and naturally projected. It is as if a friend strayed from a conversation over coffee about a love relationship into Provencal song without our becoming aware of the transformation of a banal conversation into high art. To use Malca Litovitz' favourite image of the poet's work, it is like a bird opening its beak to feed or sing, easy and somehow right even in the bleakest moments in human relationships. { 62pp, 125x205mm, November 2003; PB, £7.50, 1550711822:9781550711820 , Guernica Editions } |
| AZURE [Brian Day] Explores rich veins of religious sensuality, art, and dance, threading through encounters in Europe before focusing on vibrant South Asian images and stories. Evocative and erotic, the poems consort with figures including Krishna, Shiva and Jesus to offer intriguing scenes of beauty and desire. 'Azure' concludes with a provocative feminist retelling, in multiple voices, of the Hindu epic ' { 93pp, 140x215mm, February 2004; PB, £7.50, 1550711903:9781550711905 , Guernica Editions } |
| BACKSCATTER : New & Selected Poems [Raymond Filip] At the age of eighteen, Raymond Filip wrote 'I am a citizen of the world in exile'. Thirty years later, Filip's ethno-eccentric vision has remained prescient and true. Born in a displaced persons camp after World War II, Lithuanian by blood, Canadian by citizenship, a Quebecker by homing instinct, and Asian by marriage to a Filipina: three continents populate Filip's voice. REVIEW: "Raymond Filip's poems have a ferocious beauty -- the beauty of a wound in the process of healing but still giving pain. His poems are an alchemy of images, memories and expectations, pronounced beautifully, without hesitation, poems to be sung for the few or many ears that listen." -- R Murray Schafer. { 138pp, 125x200mm, July 2001; PB, £8.99, 1550711288:9781550711288 , Guernica Editions } |
| BARRY CALLAGHAN -- ESSAYS ON HIS WORKS [Priscila Uppal (ed)] A great story teller, Barry Callaghan is one of the most distinctive man of letters Canada has ever produced. He is fascinated by the no-man's land that stands between fiction and journalism. Politically and culturally engaged, he is a public scholar and acute critic in the tradition of Edmund Wilson. Barry Callaghan's fiction and poetry have been translated into seven languages. Among the contributors are Margaret Atwood, Timothy Findley, Marie-Claire Blais, William Kennedy, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Dennis Lee, Hayden Carruth, Patrick Lane, Seán Virgo, Robert Marteau, James Hart, David Lampe, Joe Rosenblatt, Leon Rooke, Brunella Antomarini, John Montague, Ray Robertson, Ray Ellenwood, Kathleen McCracken, Alexender Amprimoz, Michel Deguy, Branko Gorjup, Michael Keefer, Gale Zoë Garnett, Joyce Carol Oates, and Noah Richler. { 524pp, 140x215mm, December 2006; PB, £11.99, 1550712535:9781550712537 , Guernica Editions } |
| BELLECOUR [John Calabro] Blurring the lines between present and past, Toronto and Paris, and ultimately between sexual awakening and sexual abuse, this work of fiction examines one man's prolonged thoughts on a series of mysterious sexual encounters in Paris in 1963. Through the lens of adulthood, the protagonist looks at his adolescence and delves into the terrors and wonders of human sexuality itself. { 87pp, 105x175mm, May 2005; PB, £7.50, 1550712160:9781550712162 , Guernica Editions } |
| BEYOND THE RUINS [Marco Micone] Montreal during the 1970s surge of nationalism and an abandoned Italian village in the latter 1980s -- this work describes subjects who are themselves crossed by cultural and political contradictions. Caught in the rush of history and desperately seeking personal connections, the five characters evoke the immigrant's cleavage and post-colonial paradox: because of the symbolic anchors, one can never really leave home; because 'home' and the subject are continually shifting, one can never return. (3 men, 2 women). { 78pp, 125x195mm, April 1994; PB, £5.99, 0920717861:9780920717868 , Guernica Editions } |
| BILL BISSETT : Essays on His Works [Linda Rogers (ed)] This collection of essays is an attempt by various family members to define a brother from whom brotherhood is the desideratum behind every brushstroke or utterance. Bill Bissett is family to everyone who knows him. Over the years and across the continent, he has created a grid of light that connects stranger to stranger so that none of us are strangers. We speak the same language, a phonetic liturgy that makes us all understandable to one another. Authors included are: Jamie Reid, Jay Ruzesky, Susan Musgrave, Joy Kurapatwa, Scott Watson, Adeena Karasick, Tim Carlson, Linda Rogers. { 134pp, 105x175mm, July 2002; PB, £5.99, 1550711636:9781550711639 , Guernica Editions } |
| BIRDHEART [Elana Wolff] Tracing a summer's trip across Canada from Toronto to the West Coast and back, this collection of poems can be read like a subtly unfolding narrative. Examined individually, the poems illuminate doubt, loss and beauty. Though the pieces are short, they assemble a melody of shared summer memories. { 62pp, 125x205mm, January 2002; PB, £7.50, 1550711466:9781550711462 , Guernica Editions } |
| BLESSED HARBOURS : An Anthology of Hungarian-Canadian Authors [John Miska (ed)] Commemorating the 115th anniversary of Hungarian immigration to Canada, this anthology provides a representative picture of the themes, styles, and aspirations of Hungarian-Canadian literature. Revealing the entire spectrum of a colourful culture with ancient roots and a literary tradition in a state of constant renewal, this collection features not only the recognised masters but also a new generation of talent, appealing to anyone interested in the Hungarian immigrant experience in Canada. { 262pp, 130x200mm, July 2002; PB, £11.99, 1550711717:9781550711714 , Guernica Editions } |
| BLOOD OF MY BLOOD : The Dilemma of the Italian-Americans [Richard Gambino] Since its first publication in 1974, Blood of my blood has become the most highly esteemed book on Italian Americans. It is also rare that it is both a bestseller and a college text. { 388pp, May 1996; PB, £7.50, 1550710370:9781550710373 , Guernica Editions } |
| BLOOD OF MY BLOOD [Richard Gambino] Since its publication in 1974, Blood of My Blood has become the most highly esteemed book on the subject. It is also rare in that it has been a popular best-seller and is widely used as a college text. REVIEW: "With greater impact than any other non-fiction book on the subject has achieved to date, it weaves together the history, sociology, and psychology of first-, second- and third-generation Italian Americans. Its data is presented with scholarly precision; yet the author's style, which he peppers with autobiographical tidbits, makes it immensely readable." -- The New York Times. { 388pp, 125x205mm, May 2000; PB, £7.50, 1550711016:9781550711011 , Guernica Editions } |
| BLUE ASHES : Selected Poems, 1982-1998 [Jean-Paul Daoust; Translated by Daniel Sloate] Gay literature will never be the same after this book. This book is unique in its sensitivity to a universe of forbidden love and sex between a man in his early twenties and a boy of six and half years. This book won in the original French the Governor General's Award for poetry in 1990. { 143pp, 125x200mm, June 1999; PB, £8.99, 1550710931:9781550710939 , Guernica Editions } |
| BLUE WHALE [Stanislao Nievo] This is the captivating story of a close encounter between a whale and a woman told from the perspective of both protagonists. For many years humankind has been fascinated by communication between whales and dolphins. A scientific project studying the sounds emitted by blue whales takes an unexpected turn when one of the group of whales which is the subject of the study shows signs of attempting to communicate with Miriam, the project team's statistician. This strange encounter takes on increasingly deeper meanings as the whale saves Miriam when she is swept overboard and speaks to her in a language she does not understand, as she lies in a trance-like state. Miriam's increasing fascination with the whale leads her to actively seek further encounters. The primordial elemental tie between the females of two species so different in genetic terms yet so similar at a psycho-etiological level brings the whale and Miriam to finally achieve a mystic telepathic communication through the mysterious and instinctive bond which links them. { 168pp, 105x180mm, July 2000; PB, £7.50, 1550711180:9781550711189 , Guernica Editions } |
| BLUENESS OF LIGHT : Selected Poems [Louise Dupre] This collection from celebrated Quebecois writer Louise Dupré presents poetry full of light and hope about a dying loved one. { 74pp, July 2005; PB, £8.99, 1550712039:9781550712032 , Guernica Editions } |
| BOB DYLAN ALBUMS [Anthony Varesi] From his rock 'n' roll of the 1960s to his return to folk and blues in the 1990s, this guide is a unique and comprehensive view of Bob Dylan's albums. Analysing the famous singer-songwriter's career, this work provides a detailed discussion of Bob Dylan's albums from 1962 to 1997's 'Time Out of Mind'. With critic notes on each album, new approaches to favourite tracks, and extra attention on certain overlooked songs, the evolution of the popular artist and his albums are now effectively documented. { 264pp, 125x200mm, January 2002; PB, £10.99, 1550711393:9781550711394 , Guernica Editions } |
| BORDERLINES : Selected Poems & Fictions, 1972-1992 [Scott Rollins] Scott Rollins, born in 1952 in the United States, was described by a Dutch journalist as a 'literary centipede', a literal translation of a phrase that refers to the many faceted nature of his literary activities. Since making the Netherlands his home in the early 1970s he has made a name for himself as a literary translator from the Dutch. His translations of poetry and prose have been published in the UK and America. He founded a little magazine in Amsterdam, called Dremples, then his own small press, Bridges Books in 1981. He is currently an editor at a publishing house in Amsterdam. It wasn't until 1991 that his first collection of poems, Painting with Water, was published in a limited edition in Amsterdam. Borderlines is the first major collection of his work. It reflects the fruits of his extensive investigations into workings of the soul in its various guises. { 164pp, 115x190mm, May 1997; PB, £8.99, 1550710095:9781550710090 , Guernica Editions } |
| BORROWED LIGHT [Merle Nudelman] "In poems that move us from Europe in the 1930s to Canada in the twenty-first century, Merle Nudelman strings lyric pearls against a panorama of the holocaust and a Jewish family's emigration to Canada. She filigrees a web of delicate family interconnections that holds fast despite the rending winds of war and the felt traumas that can only be recollected in peacetime. Here is a poet who knows in her bones what a lyric moment can mean, and who works in her poetry toward those gemlike instances of 'Borrowed Light' when we fully understand what it means to thrive". -- Molly Peacock. { 92pp, 125x205mm, November 2003; PB, £7.50, 1550711806:9781550711806 , Guernica Editions } |
| BREAKING THE MOULD [Penny Petrone] In this memoir Penny Petrone tells what it was like growing up in Northern Ontario as the daughter of parents who moved to Canada from the class-bound feudal society of Southern Italy during the first quarter of the century when America was the dream of millions of Europeans. { 173pp, 105x180mm, May 2001; PB, £5.99, 1550711229:9781550711226 , Guernica Editions } |
| BROKEN WORLD : Poems, 1967-1998 [Len Gasparini] This book keeps our attention focussed on what is, has been and will be important. He ranks with the few contemporary poets who understand the past as well as the present and have much to contribute to those who may still be literate in the future. His imagination is a dark wood with wildlife in it. { 250pp, 140x215mm, March 2005; PB, £11.99, 1550712101:9781550712100 , Guernica Editions } |
| BROTHER INSIDE ME [Rachel Guido deVries] "The Brother Inside Me" seduces with poems celebrating nature's beauty in rural New York. Exploring the paradoxical permanency of desire and loss, deVries writes convincingly of the untimely death of her beloved brother, the dementia that plagued her father, and the inevitable changes the body experiences with age. { 80pp, March 2008; PB, £8.99, 1550712845:9781550712841 , Guernica Editions } |
| BURSTING TEST [Linda Rogers] These poems test the capacity of individuals, families, communities, and the earth itself to stand the pressures of modern life. They walk the tightrope over the chasm between male and female, love and hate, child and adult, war and peace, and now and forever, attempting to find balance and reconcile the one with the many. { 184pp, 140x215mm, October 2002; PB, £7.50, 1550711598:9781550711592 , Guernica Editions } |
| CALL FOR CULTURAL SYMBIOSIS [Juri Talvet] In a provocative and thoughtful essay, Estonia's pre-eminent poet and cultural critic investigates the role of culture in the post-modern world. Weighing in against grandstanding by western governments and envisioning instead a dialogue between the traditionally powerful western nations and the rest of the world, the author pays particular attention to how Estonia would figure in such a discussion. { 133pp, 125x205mm, May 2005; PB, £8.99, 1550712268:9781550712261 , Guernica Editions } |
| CANADIAN DUCE [Bruno Ramirez] In June 1940, as the dictator Benito Mussolini took Italy into war against the Allied Powers, the Canadian authorities launched a series of raids against Italian-Canadians from coast to coast. Suspected of being a danger to national security, several hundreds of them were arrested and interned without trial. Most of the Italian-Canadian population was declared 'enemy alien,' community centres were shut, and a multitude of families thrown into hardship and despair. The Canadian Duce narrates this little-known chapter of Canadian history through the experience of a Montreal Italian-Canadian family -- the Caruso's -- and through the coming of age of their teen-aged son Mario. This is the script of the CBC TV film Il duce canadese, which aired in 2005. { 156pp, 125x200mm, December 2006; PB, £10.99, 1550712578:9781550712575 , Guernica Editions } |
| CATERINA EDWARDS [Joseph Pivato (ed)] Caterina Edwards was born in England, and now lives in Edmonton. With the publication of The Lion's Mouth in 1982, Caterina Edwards made her mark as an novelist. This coming-of-age story of an Italian immigrant woman is one of the first novels to combine ethnic questions with feminist ideas. Edwards' work includes short stories, novellas and a play, and explore questions of identity for men and women in Western Canada. This first book on Edwards' work examines her literary achievement and looks at the topics of subjectivity, bildungsroman, Cinderella and theories of fiction. { 128pp, 125x205mm, May 2000; PB, £5.99, 1550711148:9781550711141 , Guernica Editions } |
| CIAO, BABY [Gianna Patriarca] This is the third collection of a trilogy on what the poet calls 'Italian women and other tragedies. A must for every Italian North American woman. { 96pp, December 1999; PB, £7.50, 1550710966:9781550710960 , Guernica Editions } |
| CITIES, CULTURE & GRANITE [Edmund P Fowler] In North America, we are generally desensitised to our surroundings, whether they are buildings or forests. This lack of awareness makes it easier to accept the fact that cities, towns, and suburbs are all built for us, not by us. It also makes sensible urban planning or policy difficult. The results have not been pretty. Cities are dysfunctional in part because we have built them in ways that pollute our ecosphere, something that harms our health in a direct way. Ecological stupidity is also economic stupidity, and North American urban development is incomprehensibly expensive. But cities also don't work socially: their design discourages casual public contact, which is the source of strong local communities and of self-confident collective action. Fowler points to numerous examples of humans who have transcended this culture of separation. { 117pp, 140x215mm, August 2004; PB, £8.99, 1550711946:9781550711943 , Guernica Editions } |
| COLLEGE STREET [Olindo Romeo Chiocca] This semi-autobiographical title looks at the childhood and teenage years of Bruno, a boy growing up in Toronto's Little Italy area. With vivid descriptions of memorable events, this once-fledgling neighbourhood comes to life with stories of weddings, funerals, feasts, and processions. Revisiting an endless array of family gatherings, neighbourhood girls, dinners, and covert trips to Italy, these reminiscences about the city with the largest population of Italians outside of Italy creates a lively picture of multicultural friendships. { 146pp, 105x175mm, March 2005; PB, £7.50, 1550712179:9781550712179 , Guernica Editions } |
| CONJURING JESUS [Brian Day] "Conjuring Jesus" presents a disarmingly fresh picture of Jesus as a mystic, a mischievous reformer, and a poet of the sensuous. It portrays him in his tumults and his moments of transcendence, his musings and stories, and his diverse encounters with women and men. Continually surprising in its perspectives, while closely based on Biblical texts, "Conjuring Jesus" reveals a man who is playful and resolute: moved by a keen and encompassing acceptance, a persistent impulse toward sinuous reshaping, and a liberating awareness of his own sexuality. { 93pp, March 2008; PB, £8.99, 1550712748:9781550712742 , Guernica Editions } |
| CONSCIENCE & COERCION : Ahmadi Muslims & Orthodoxy in Pakistan [Gualtieri] Relates the tragic experience of members of the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam and records their testimony of harassment and persecution resulting from their loyalty to their understanding of God and His revelation. { November 1989; PB, £5.99, 0920717411:9780920717417 , Guernica Editions } |
| COSMOPOLITICS [Paris Arnopoulos] This books describes the global situation of cosmopolitics, and analyses its policies in resolving them. It does so by investigating the two most critical issues in this area: demilitarisation and peaceful uses of outer space, as well as the geostationary orbit and electromagnetic spectrum of satellite communications. { 290pp, February 1998; PB, £11.99, 155071046X:9781550710465 , Guernica Editions } |
| COUNTESS PLAYS [Sloate] The Countess hides behind caricature to better obtain her ends. But all her moods give her a roundness that sometimes shock, amuse, or at times irritate. { January 1995; PB, £8.99, 0920717780:9780920717783 , Guernica Editions } |
| COURAGE UNDERGROUND [Julie Roorda] The poems in 'Courage Underground' burrow beneath the skin to examine the relationship between consciousness and body. They penetrate hidden emotions contained by vital organs; they enter the sensibilities of lower order creatures and characters of the mythic underworld. The journey elicits new perspectives on loss and alienation that are both hilarious and startling. { 88pp, 140x215mm, November 2006; PB, £8.99, 1550712454:9781550712452 , Guernica Editions } |
| CULTURE & DIFFERENCE : Essays on Canadian Society [Howard A Doughty & Marino Tuzi (eds)] This book focuses on prevailing ideas connected to cultural and social diversity. The writers of these essays deploy a variety of crit-ical methods, which originate from social, cultural and literary theory, and analyse the relationship between historical and social forces and recurrent cultural beliefs and values. Contributors: Marino Tuzi, William Ansehin, Eva C. Karpinski, Osvaldo Croci, Robin Mathews, and Howard A Doughty. { 209pp, March 2008; PB, £10.99, 155071287X:9781550712872 , Guernica Editions } |
| DAGOES READ : Tradition & the Italian/American Writer [Fred Gardaphé] Since 1987, writer and critic Fred Gardaphé has regularly reviewed Italian/North American literature in Fra Noi, an Italian/American monthly newspaper based in Chicago. This volume features the best of 'Parole Scritte', his monthly columns. Introduced by an essay from which the collection gets its title, Dagoes Read is the first publication of its kind in the history of Italian/North American literature. It serves as a fine introduction to this literary movement as well as a survey of recent publications by Italian/North Americans. Works reviewed include those by Tony Ardiaone, Dorothy Bryant, Pietro di Donato, John Fante, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Frank Lentricchia, Jay Parini, Diane Raptosh, Gay Talese, Sal LaPuma, and many others. { 236pp, 130x205mm, August 1996; PB, £11.99, 1550710311:9781550710311 , Guernica Editions } |
| DARK DOMAIN [Eugénio de Andrade] Eugénio de Andrade (born in 1923) is Portugal's best-known living poet. He has won all of Portugal's literary awards, including the Pen Club Poetry prize (1984). He has often been associated with the generation of 1927 in Spain, especially Garcia Lorca. Translated into well over twenty languages, de Andrade's poetry has always exhibited a carefully evoked simplicity. Through naked word and image, he strives to convey what he calls 'the rough or sweet skin of things'. Distrustful of abstractions, he focuses on the world of matter, proclaiming a love for 'words as smooth as pebbles, rough as rye bread'. The four classical elements of earth, water, air, and fire are never absent from his work. Nor is the human body, whose sensuality and sexuality lie at the heart of Dark Domain. For this poet, proud to be called solar and pagan, the body itself is the final 'metaphor for the universe'. { 67pp, 105x180mm, January 2001; PB, £7.50, 1550711261:9781550711264 , Guernica Editions } |
| DARK MAN [Roberto Pace] 'Dark Man', a bizarre anti-hero, sets an imaginary central Europe into a frenzy in this work portraying the horrors of life in present-day Europe. Using his powers of temptation and enticement, this anti-heroic figure begins to seep under the skin of the people he meets and to transform their lives while they remain in blissful ignorance of his purposes. { 237pp, 105x175mm, June 2005; PB, £8.99, 1550712152:9781550712155 , Guernica Editions } |
| DARKEST SIDE OF THE FASCIST YEARS : The Italian-Canadian Press, 1920-1942 [Angelo Principe] The Darkest Side of the Fascist Years documents the three phases of the Italian-Canadian fascist press, following its parabolic trajectory from the initial failure of the 1920s, to the noisy success in the middle of 1930s, and to its final demise in the early 1940s. The book analyses in detail the three major Italian-Canadian newspapers which had served the Italian reading public during the inter-wars period. { 272pp, 130x205mm, June 1999; PB, £11.99, 1550710834:9781550710830 , Guernica Editions } |
| DAUGHTER OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS [Réjean Ducharme] In this novel in verse, a beautiful and naïve Columbia Columbus wanders through the world in search of friendship upon the death of her famous father. Despite fantastic adventures, she finds mostly cruelty and indifference, until she makes friends with an ever growing number of animals, some of whom serve as bodyguards during her dramatic return to Montreal, in the year 2492, to celebrate the millennium of Christopher Columbus's discovery of America. { 208pp, 125x205mm, May 2000; PB, £11.99, 1550711067:9781550711066 , Guernica Editions } |
| DAUGHTERS FOR SALE [Gianna Patriarca] Daughters for Sale continues the author's journey begun in Italian Women and Other Tragedies, Gianna Patriarca's successful first collection of poems. Here is a compassionate search for understanding lives dislocated by the immigrant experience. Through humour, irony, anger, and reconciliation, Gianna Patriarca reveals the fragility and intensity of the unforgettable characters she meets. Their 'songs in dialect' arise from voices not accustomed to being heard in any official culture. These poetic snapshots of women and men will leave no reader indifferent. { 83pp, 115x190mm, May 1997; PB, £7.50, 1550710451:9781550710458 , Guernica Editions } |
| DAVID ADAMS RICHARDS : Essays on His Works [Tony Tremblay (ed)] David Adams Richards is one of Canada's foremost writers. A writer of poetry, short fiction, screenplays, non-fiction, essays and polemics, Richards' most prodigious work thus far has been as a novelist. With fifteen books and all of the major Canadian literary prizes to his credit, Richards is still relatively unknown by the reading public. This collection, the first book-length study of Richards' work, is meant to remedy that situation. Richards' interviews with the editor and opening essay situate his own beginnings as a writer and his dogged persistence in staying the course. { 159pp, 140x215mm, December 2003; PB, £8.99, 1550711997:9781550711998 , Guernica Editions } |
| DAVID SOLWAY : Essays on His Works [Carmine Starnino (ed)] In recent years David Solway's groundbreaking trio of critical looks -- Education Lost, Lying About the Wolf, and Random Walks -- have earned him a reputation as a thinker and prose writer of considerable erudition. But it is through his poetry that Solway has established himself as an exemplary and indispensable literary artist. This volume -- the very first book devoted to the study of Solway's work -- includes contributions by such noted poets and critics as W. J. Keith, Wilf Cude, Eric Ormsby, Richard Sanger, and William Ford. The result is a fuller exploration and celebration of the 'cornucopian triumphs' of a poet Carmine Starnino calls in his introduction "one of the best things to ever happen to English Canadian poetry". Carmine Starnino is a poet who lives in Montreal. { 163pp, 110x180mm, November 2001; PB, £5.99, 1550711326:9781550711325 , Guernica Editions } |
| DEFENDING HER SON [John O'Meara] Shakespeare scholar and anthroposophist, John O'Meara in this memoir traces the main patterns of his life experience through and beyond the publication of his associated works. The record he leaves is a moving description of a soul's journey through the labyrinth of meetings that go into the making of a life: a revealing document about an author's struggle to come to terms with the profound demands a life can make. Along the way John O'Meara offers us images richly evocative of the landscape and cultures of Montreal and Quebec, where he was born and lived for most of the life he records. { 174pp, 110x180mm, May 2000; PB, £10.99, 1550711059:9781550711059 , Guernica Editions } |
| DEMON IN MY VIEW : Stories [Len Gasparini] This offbeat story collection effortlessly captures dark underworlds and the eccentric characters that inhabit them. In one story, a jealous tattoo artist revenges himself on the woman he loves. In another, one horrifying realisation after another comes to light during a harmless childhood game. Told with a Hitchcock-like flair for psychological detail, these disturbing stories reverberate with gruesome plot twists and remarkable turns of fate. { 168pp, 130x200mm, June 2003; PB, £8.99, 1550711792:9781550711790 , Guernica Editions } |
| DESTROYER OF COMPASSES : Short Stories [Wade Bell] Sometimes lyrical, sometimes tough, these stories deal with the foibles and frailties of acutely drawn characters pursuing freedom, love, beauty and adventure amidst the stark realities of life, whether at the end of a dictatorship in Spain, on an exotic Mediterranean island or as a Spanish bride-to-be first encountering Canada. Frank, provocative and haunting, these pieces range from dark comedy to quirky, uncertain romance to edgy thriller. The writing is vivid, sensual and contemporary. { 175pp, 130x200mm, December 2002; PB, £8.99, 1550711687:9781550711684 , Guernica Editions } |
| DEVILS IN PARADISE : Writings on Post-Emigrant Cultures [Pasquale Verdicchio] In these essays Pasquale Verdicchio stresses the need to view the cultural works of minority groups not solely from the perspective of their immigrant roots, but primarily as post-emigrant products. This post-emigrant condition might very well be a new phase in which the majority of migrant and non-migrant writers and artists find themselves today. How is an immigrant group that is no longer immigrant perceived? How does it perceive itself? Do tired stereotypes still help artists in representing themselves and society? How do ethnic and racial minority organisations maintain or disintegrate their own culture? Through writings on diverse figures such as Antonio Gramsci, the Super Mario Brothers, or Spike Lee, and on subjects that range from literature to sculpture and photography, the author closes in on a possible intellectual synthesis for what might be considered the most complex question of this end of the century: What is the identity and place of a minority individual? { 160pp, 130x205mm, November 1997; PB, £11.99, 1550710273:9781550710274 , Guernica Editions } |
| DISCOURSE & COMMUNITY : Multidisciplinary Studies of Canadian Culture [Howard A Doughty & Marino Tuzi] This book provides a range of essays dealing with political, social, cultural and literary themes, such as the shift from pioneer life to the connection to empire, as well as technological developments, the domination of nature, and the social power of the internet. These critical essays examine various, interconnected aspects of contemporary Canadian society. Using the analytical tools of their particular fields, such as political science and cultural and literary studies, the writers of these essays concentrate on many of the crucial factors that have shaped current social, cultural reality in Canada. These writers have contributed to this collection of essays: Susan Ellis, Ches Skinner, Douglas Bailie, Gordon Hatt, Brian Flack, Michael Welton, Diane Meaghan, Howard A. Doughty. { 178pp, 125x205mm, December 2006; PB, £11.99, 155071256X:9781550712568 , Guernica Editions } |
| DOG & CROW [Michael Springate] Based on Pound's sojourn in fascist Italy, the play spans the years 1928 to 1946 and moves from Italy to America. (7 men, 3 women). { January 1991; PB, £5.99, 0920717187:9780920717189 , Guernica Editions } |
| DON MCKAY -- ESSAYS ON HIS WORKS [Brian Bartlett (ed)] Over the past thirty years, Don McKay has created one of the most original bodies of work in contemporary English language poetry. From the early collections Air Occupies Space and Lightning Ball Bait to the recent books Apparatus and Another Gravity, McKay has combined a curious, patient eye with an acute, arresting ear. His poetry overflows with details of ornithology, botany, weather, industry, books, and music. Geographically it ranges from south-western Ontario to the St. John River valley to the seascapes of Vancouver Island. It blends nuanced description and complex metaphor, philosophical phrasing and folksy idiom, madcap humour and elegy. The contributors are Stan Dragland, Robert Bringhurst, John Oughton, Louis MacKendrick, Christopher Levenson, Don Coles, Sue Sinclair, Barbara Colebrook Peace, Margo Wheaton, Kevin Bushell, Susan Elmslie, Ross Leckie, Ken Babstock, and Brian Bartlett. { 200pp, 110x180mm, December 2006; PB, £10.99, 1550712527:9781550712520 , Guernica Editions } |
| DOUBLY SUSPECT [Madeleine Monette] This novel about seduction which borrows from the detective genre and the psychological novels offers a modern and original take on the theme of the Double. From the diary left behind in Italy by Manon, who seems to have committed suicide, Anne undertakes to penetrate her enigma. In her suspenseful quest, Anne exposes her troubled self, as she discovers the enlightening power of artful lies, the baring effect of made-up stories. From her retreat in Rome, Anne depicts a daring picture of love in our times. { 144pp, 105x180mm, July 2000; PB, £10.99, 155071113X:9781550711134 , Guernica Editions } |
| DREAMING OUR SPACE [Marguerite Andersen] This book offers a translation of genre-defying prose poems speaks of the difficult mother-daughter relationship in tormented yet hopeful words. Upon publication under the title L'Autrement pareille, the Toronto critic Barbara Godard compared the text to writings by Nicole Brossard and called Andersen, the older author, "Brossard's literary daughter." Marguerite Andersen writes mostly in French. An autobiographical novel, De mémoire de femme, won the Prix du Journal de Montréal in 1983; La Soupe, also a novel, won the Grand Prix du Salon du livre de Toronto in 1995. Written in English, Christiane Pflug: Stations in a Painter's Life, is a theatrical account of the life and suicide of the Berlin born Toronto painter. It was successfully performed in 1996, during The Gathering, a festival of women's voices presented in Toronto by Women's Theater Works. { 74pp, 130x205mm, October 2002; PB, £7.50, 1550711520:9781550711523 , Guernica Editions } |
| DUO FOR OBSTINATE VOICES [Pelletier] Superimposes the political struggle of Quebec with the relationship between Philip, a television journalist, and Catherine, an aspiring young dancer (2 men, 1 woman). { January 1990; PB, £7.50, 0920717160:9780920717165 , Guernica Editions } |
| DUOLOGUE : On Culture & Identity [Antonio D'Alfonso & Pasquale Verdicchio] In San Diego, California, between June 15 and June 17, 1996, two writers sit before a microphone and exchange ideas on a number of burning issues with which they have both had to contend for over twenty years. Literature, the politics of publishing, identity, culture, post-emigrant culture, ethnicity, pluriculturalism, Americanism, Canadianism, nationalism, the use of writers' associations: these are some of the themes that Antonio D'Alfonso and Pasquale Verdicchio tackle in this casual yet intense duologue. Antonio D'Alfonso has published over a dozen books and works as an editor and publisher, and Pasquale Verdicchio is the author of a dozen books and is head of the Writing Program in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. { 120pp, December 1998; PB, £7.50, 1550710729:9781550710724 , Guernica Editions } |
| ECHO [Joseph Pivato] This collection of essays explores the literature of Italian immigrants in Canada and their children by focusing on the central role that themes of migration hold in their work. Addressing topics such as the oral roots of Canadian immigrant writing, the changing place of women in works of the Italian diaspora, and the persistent difficulties of translation, this work provides an international perspective on some of the most pressing questions in the study of literature today. In addition to Canadian works, the work of immigrant writers from Australia and other countries is also considered, producing nuanced observations of cultural differences and affinities. { 272pp, December 1994; PB, £10.99, 1550710044:9781550710045 , Guernica Editions } |
| EDGES OF LIGHT : Selected Poems, 1983-1990 [Hélène Dorion] At the centre of these texts is the person loved: never described, never allowed to speak, this eternal body, this love that emerges from the shadows around us, central to the voice of the poems, loved with constance and unswerving fidelity, pledge of the poem's lifeblood, impression of their voice, their image, their pressing against the limits of banality, daily depression, personal despair. The words echo in the reader's head. Despite the highly chiselled use of language, the almost clinically cold choice of words, the adherence to the vocabulary of daily discourse, the poems offer strangely calming comfort, a soothing hope for those who question and move through the world with sensitivity and a certain tentativeness. { 108pp, 115x190mm, August 1995; PB, £7.50, 0920717950:9780920717950 , Guernica Editions } |
| ELEVENTH TOE [Julie Roorda] REVIEW: "Julie Roorda is a discovery. She is one of the best young poets of the modern generation, the group of thirty-year-olds, in whose hands we are provided with the gift of beauty and the poetic relevancy of life. We know now, with the publication of this, her first collection of poems, that Ms Roorda is in the vanguard of the overall Renaissance in Canadian poetry. This is a spiritualist conversation conducted with conscience, with ancestry, and with the spirit of man (and of woman); and which wrestles successfully. with the elemental questions of our contemporary morality, with warmth, with wonder, and with humour. This collection poses religious and ordinary social questions that demand honesty through introspection. the kind of honesty that all good poetry must be obliged to encompass. Ms Roorda is a laudatory, rich addition to our excellence in Canadian poetry." -- Austin Clarke, author. { 61pp, 125x200mm, May 2001; PB, £7.50, 1550711296:9781550711295 , Guernica Editions } |
| ELUSIVE MARGINS : Consuming Media, Ethnicity, & Culture [William Anselmi & Kosta Gouliamos] This book deals with the patterns of exclusion, falsehood and disorder constructed systematically by power elites in order to obscure diversity and quash the autonomy of subordinated communities. { 129pp, February 1998; PB, £11.99, 1550710427:9781550710427 , Guernica Editions } |
| EMBRACING SERAFINA [Penny Petrone] This book moves with compelling energy from the forests of north-western Ontario to the capitals of Europe to the tribal villages of Africa... and from there to South America, China, and into the mysterious world that existed behind the Iron Curtain when few Westerners dared, or got the chance, to visit there. It is an absorbingly personal document, with the power not only of insight and innocence but of deeply conveyed sensuality -- toward sun and seawater and mountain air; the music and hustle of cafés and cantinas; the tastes and smells of exotic kitchens and markets. There is an urgency here, bred of complex desires and a craving for experience and knowledge. Through her search, Petrone reveals not just the graces but the hard edges and uncertainties of a woman's ventures into foreign landscapes and into the foreboding terrain of the self. { 604pp, 125x205mm, January 2000; PB, £12.99, 1550711121:9781550711127 , Guernica Editions } |
| EMBRACE [Irene Guilford] During World War II, when the Communists invade Lithuania, twenty-one year old Edvardas flees while his eighteen year old brother Pranas stays. At war's end, each brother marries and raises a family, one in the free west, the other in the Communist East. For forty years, a harsh separation lies between them, a no man's land of love, envy and guilt. { 150pp, 130x205mm, May 1999; PB, £8.99, 1550710869:9781550710861 , Guernica Editions } |
| ESTONIAN ELEGY [Jüri Talvet. Translated by H L Hix] Born in 1945 in Pärnu, Jüri Talvet has become one of Estonia's foremost literary figures. His essay book in English, "A Call for Cultural Symbiosis", was published in 2005 by Geuernica Editions. { 74pp, March 2008; PB, £8.99, 1550712799:9781550712797 , Guernica Editions } |
| F G PACI : Essays on His Works [Joseph Pivato (ed)] "Frank Paci has been called one of the fathers of Italian-Canadian writing. His book, "The Italians", was the first English novel to deal with the experience of Italian immigrants in Canada. Since 1978 Paci has chronicled this experience in powerful realistic narratives which have inspired other writers. The essays collected in this volume deal with some of Paci's eight novels and explore several literary themes, moral questions and philosophical preoccupations of this little known author" – from the introduction by Joseph Pivato. Essays by Caterina Edwards, Roberta Sciff-Zamaro, Enoch Panofsky, Anna Carlevaris, Marino Tuzi, Gaetano Rando and Joseph Pivato. A brief biography of F. G. Paci, and an interview in three parts by C. D. Minni and Joseph Pivato are included. { 151pp, 105x175mm, November 2002; PB, £7.50, 1550711776:9781550711776 , Guernica Editions } |
| FABRIZIO'S PASSION [Antonio D'Alfonso] Fabrizio's Passion is the author's English-language version of his French-language novel, Avril on l'anti-passion. This baroque novel, divided into twenty-five chapters, explores the different facets of an Italian family living in North America. It is through the technique of a multi-voiced narrative that the readers are permitted to see what might constitute a possible portrait of the ethnic family in American pluricultural societies. More than the regular linear plot, what is offered here is the retelling of the various private experiences that the Notte family has undergone for almost half a century, and always during the month of April. { 235pp, 115x190mm, August 1995; PB, £10.99, 1550710230:9781550710236 , Guernica Editions } |
| FABRIZIO'S PASSION [Antonio D'Alfonso] The novel is remarkable in its form and narration. The story unfolds through journal entries, letters, film script, and photographs; and the narration is interrupted by flashbacks, digressions, the switching of narrators, and the presence of foreign words. The specific (dis)order in which events are presented in this book illustrated the state of confusion experienced by Fabrisio in his quest for identity amid a pluricultural society. With this novel the author has succeeded in creating a reading experience which reflects the protagonist's emotional and psychological state of being. { 214pp, 110x180mm, May 2000; PB, £5.99, 1550710826:9781550710823 , Guernica Editions } |
| FAMILIAL CIRCLES [Theresa Carilli] Within these plays, the author demonstrates how the Italian American family communicates in a web of never-ending conflict with family members, devising new strategies to outwit one another. Comical and poignant, Carilli's plays capture the essence of the Italian American familial relationship. { 96pp, 115x190mm, February 2002; PB, £7.50, 1550711385:9781550711387 , Guernica Editions } |
| FAMILY MATTERS : Short Stories [Marisa De Franceschi] Illustrating the importance of family relationships, these short stories follow the life of an immigrant family through the eyes of Marlena. As the protagonist, Marlena struggles to uncover the dynamics of her family's relationships and make sense of it all. Yet in the course of studying her family, Marlena faces the reality of infidelity and other struggles. Through Marlena's eyes and the pleasant prose, the stories demonstrate the eternal strength of family. { 121pp, 125x200mm, December 2001; PB, £7.50, 1550711415:9781550711417 , Guernica Editions } |
| FASCISM & THE ITALIANS OF MONTREAL : An Oral History, 1922-1945 [Filippo Salvatore] This book of interviews is an absorbing autobiography of the Italian community of Montreal, and its encounters with important events in Canada and in Europe from 1992 to 1945: from Mussolini's March on Rome to the Concordat between the Catholic Church and the Italian state; from the war in Ethiopia to the Pact of Steel signed by Mussolini and Hitler; from the Spanish civil war to the declaration of war between Italy and Canada. The reader will discover sensational revelations about the hundreds of Italian Canadians who were interned by the Canadian government during the Second World War -- often on trumped-up charges and without a single shred of evidence against them. These interviews recount the Italian community's passions and sorrows, its exuberant love of life and its struggle for survival and dignity in America. { 224pp, 125x205mm, March 1998; PB, £11.99, 1550710583:9781550710588 , Guernica Editions } |
| FATHER'S VENGEANCE [Pan Bouyoucas] This is a disturbing and finely-wrought crime novel. A father sees his family stricken by tragedy when his oldest daughter is brutally attacked in a Montreal car park on New Year's Eve. Yannis Fokas, a Greek immigrant, has worked hard to build a better future for his children. But the sordid attack on his daughter and the resulting changes in his own behaviour, have a devastating impact. The author takes us on the painful journey of a father in search of justice, as well as into the world of a Quebecois detective investigating the incident, who is experiencing his own family drama. By weaving together the daily challenges of these two men, Pan Bouyoucas reveals to us the complex world of two families and their common destiny. { 250pp, 105x180mm, July 2000; PB, £10.99, 1550711164:9781550711165 , Guernica Editions } |
| FEAST OF THE DEAD : Short Stories [Anthony Fragola] Feast of the Dead explores the theme of isolation from both American society and the Italian culture of the first generation immigrants who came to the United States. These interrelated stories focus on a young boy and his grandmother who infuses him with a sense of the mysterious of her former life in Sicily. The central image of Mount Etna dominates the villagers' lives and the protagonist's dreams. In his search for connection to his past, he discovers that his parents and their generation have broken their ties to teh European country and that his own generation has refuted its heritage to pursue the American dream. Divided between Europe and America, he must try to integrate both these cultures. Steeped in oral tradition of these people, these stories investigate magic and folklore, the passing of a generation and a way of life, and the spiritual crisis of a traditional culture in transition. { 136pp, 130x205mm, January 1998; PB, £8.99, 1550710362:9781550710366 , Guernica Editions } |
| FERTILE CRESCENT [Karen Shenfeld] Ancient and medieval Jewish travellers are brought to poetic life amidst images garnered from the poet's personal journeys crossing the Sahara Desert and voyaging down the Congo River. This title is number 135 of the Essential Poets Series. { 80pp, June 2005; PB, £8.99, 1550712276:9781550712278 , Guernica Editions } |
| FILMS D'AFRIQUE [Michel Larouche (ed)] Text in French. { 144pp, 115x190mm, June 1991; PB, £8.99, 2891350359:9782891350358 , Guernica Editions } |
| FILMS OF JACQUES TATI [Michel Chion] Life never ceases to give homage to Jacques Tati. Be it on the beach, in an old part of town, or in the glamour of a modern city, we find everywhere the gags which have peopled such films as Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot and Playtime. If a silhouette crosses us at a street corner, we are quickly reminded of certain scenes in Mon Oncle. Tati was a great film comic who deserves to be placed on the same level as Keaton and Chaplin. Tati created Monsieur Hulot who has now entered the world of screen legends. Above all, Jacques Tati was an exemplary artist who was not scared of taking risks or to invest his entire being in the making of his films. From Jour de fête to Parade, there is a Tati-World which this study invites us to discover. Michael Chion is a critic at Les Cashiers du cinéma and has published numerous works which develop his theories on the art of sound in cinema (La Voix au cinéma and Le Son au cinéma). A musical composer, Michael Chion is also the author of Éponine, which was awarded the Prix Jean-Vigo in 1985. { 161pp, 110x190mm, September 2002; PB, £7.50, 155071175X:9781550711752 , Guernica Editions } |
| FIRST DAY [Malca Litovitz] In 'First Day', Malca Litovitz's third collection, childhood memories, love, nature, and battles with illness are depicted on a broad canvas of lyrical and prose poems. { 86pp, 130x205mm, December 2006; PB, £8.99, 1550712411:9781550712414 , Guernica Editions } |
| FOREPLAY : Followed by My Italian Wife [Mary Melfi] "Foreplay" is a black comedy in three acts, explores the relationship of an economically well-out but emotionally insecure couple. They take an off-season holiday on a New Age refuse island, supposedly to improve their sex lives. "My Italian Wife" is a light-hearted, at times tongue-in-cheek, description of the mind-set and preoccupations of second generation Italian immigrants. There is self-mocking wit, flashy dialogue and multi-level insight into the problems confronting the characters. You don't have to be Italian to recognise yourself in them. { 128pp, March 2008; PB, £8.99, 1550712888:9781550712889 , Guernica Editions } |
| FREMDE : Discourse on the Foreign [Gino Chiellino] Gino Chiellino is a foreigner (an Ausländer, a Fremder) -- an Italian living in Germany and writing in German. The experience of being foreign defines his life and his work, and it is the issue he addresses in this selection of essays. Yet Gino Chiellino is not just a foreigner; he is doubly estranged: in his texts there is no returning 'home', nor is it possible to ever arrive in the new culture. The essence of foreignness seems rather to derive from a critical distance on those who base their identity on some national state as well as on those foreigners who disdain assimilation. Chiellino explores the impact of this problematic debate on foreign artists and their (non)integration into the German cultural scene. { 54pp, 115x190mm, January 1995; PB, £5.99, 1550710206:9781550710205 , Guernica Editions } |
| FRENCH POETS OF TODAY [Jean-Yves Reuzeau (ed)] Virtually all the writers grouped in this collection have been active in the French poetry scene for many years. Although the thirteen writers here have crossed paths, their literary domains remain somewhat far apart. The poets included in this anthology are Patrice Beray, Patrice Delbourg, Olivier Kaeppelin, Leslie Kaplan, Dominique Labarrieré, Yves Martin, Jean-Yves Reuzeau, James Sacré, Serge Safran, Serge Sautreau, André Velter, Franck Venaille and Marc Villard. { 195pp, 115x190mm, March 1999; PB, £8.99, 0920717829:9780920717820 , Guernica Editions } |
| FROM PIONEER TO NOMAD : Essays on Italian North American Writing [Leonardo Buonomo] In these essays Leonardo Buonomo reconsiders the Italian American experience from the point of view of the close relationship between writing and the processes of identity-construction. The authors analysed in this study -- Luigi Palma di Cesnola, Sister Blandina Segale, Emanuel Carnevali, John Fante, Jerre Mangione and Pasquale Verdicchio -- have found on the written page their true homeland, the place from which to survey critically the North American scene. These authors range from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present and are representative of different social and regional backgrounds, as well as of different facets of hyphenated identity in North America. Reading their works, the author argues, means discovering a significant range of voices and a complex set of cultural issues, that attest to the increasingly rich history and evolution of Italian American literature. This volume also makes available Luigi Palma di Cesnola's important memoir of 1865, Ten Months in Libby Prison. { 100pp, 125x205mm, December 2002; PB, £11.99, 1550711660:9781550711660 , Guernica Editions } |
| FULVIO CACCIA : Selected Poems [Translated by Daniel Sloate] A selection of poems by Fulvio Caccia who won the Governor General's Award for poetry in 1994 for the original French entitled Aknos. REVIEW: "A short selection of these poems appeared in 1998 under the title Aknos and Other Poems. In this collection the range is considerably broader and especially revealing in the richness of a poetic world we had but glimpsed in the previous book. Here are the major poems, Aknos and younger texts, all adding perspectives and depth to our perception of the universe that is fixed and shifting, rock-solid and ephemeral. All the early texts end on a note of yearning, of lessons learned not always willingly, of the omnipresence of human relativity. They are all subsumed in Aknos in which the human is transcended into a vast idealised landscape where pain and joy are mythogonised and abstracted into mountain, desert, delta, and Aknos himself." -- Daniel Sloate. { 128pp, 125x205mm, May 2000; PB, £8.99, 1550711105:9781550711103 , Guernica Editions } |
| GAIL SCOTT : Essays on Her Works [Lianne Moyes (ed)] This collection of essays examines the varied and influential work of Montreal writer Gail Scott, the feminist and experimental writer who placed Quebec women's writing on the map. Whether working as a bilingual journalist covering political and cultural events in 1970s Quebec, an anglophone writing with the many languages of Montreal in her ears, or a queer writer whose work with 'new narrative' links her with writers across the United States, Scott transforms the spaces between communities into spaces of cultural and intellectual possibility. These essays explore her novels, essays, and short stories, which engage a range of issues central to contemporary thought including: the porosity of the subject; the body as sensory interface; history as montage; the novel as multimedia installation; the cosmopolitan centre as capitalist and colonialist ruin; and realism as an accumulation of time frames, angles of vision, and events going on simultaneously in different spaces. { 242pp, 115x175mm, September 2002; PB, £5.99, 1550711644:9781550711646 , Guernica Editions } |
| GAMBLER'S DAUGHTER [Rachel Guido Devries] A self-reflective exploration in healing, the speaker of these poems confronts memories of her violent father. Throughout her collection, the poet contemplates the type of father she wanted while remembering the positive influences that moulded her childhood. Recalling the women who nurtured and comforted her, the author achieves a sense of peace and balance. { 64pp, 115x190mm, February 2002; PB, £7.50, 1550711482:9781550711486 , Guernica Editions } |
| GIRLS CLOSED IN [France Théoret] 1950s Quebec: a shy sixteen-year-old in a Catholic boarding school for perspective schoolteachers falls in love with a classmate. When the fantasised relationship fails, she takes superficial refuge with a group of girls, and learns how alone she is, how alone and closed off they all are. { 116pp, 140x215mm, June 2005; PB, £8.99, 1550712063:9781550712063 , Guernica Editions } |
| GOD HANGS UPSIDE DOWN [Joseph Maviglia] Poems that combine Italian oral tradition and social commentary. { 128pp, December 1994; PB, £7.50, 1550710141:9781550710144 , Guernica Editions } |
| GRAPH OF ROADS : Selected Poems, 1968-1999 [Gilles Cyr; Translated by Patrick Williamson, Gerald Mangan, Patrick Boran, & Yann Lovelock] "Though Gilles Cyr's work is rooted in the act of seeing, it is not content merely to remain with what is seen; it is not nature poetry, but goes on to encompass the nature of seeing. While nature poetry exploits its material, Gilles Cyr's expresses wholeness, it makes the necessary connection between what is seen and what is seeing. Ultimately sight manifests itself, at the human level, in speech, and that is where the poetry comes from. Cyr, however, sees it as his job to send us back to where it all began." -- Yann Love-lock. { 104pp, 130x205mm, October 2007; PB, £8.99, 1550712373:9781550712377 , Guernica Editions } |
| GREAT DICTATORS : Interviews with Filmmakers of Italian Descent [Angela Baldassarre] In twenty-one separate interviews -- two with director Bernardo Bertolucci -- Angela Baldassarre sheds light on what motivates filmmakers in their work. Focusing on Italian directors as well as American directors of Italian descent, The Great Dictators -- collected over the course of six years -- unearths a variety of personalities and dreams. { 105pp, 130x205mm, August 1999; PB, £8.99, 155071094X:9781550710946 , Guernica Editions } |
| GREAT LIGHT CAGE : Collected & New Poems [Robert Flanagan] This volume brings together the poems from Robert Flanagan's earlier books -- Body (1970), Incisions (1972), Gravity (1978), and On the Ground (1990) -- and a number of new poems. We find a continuity, a flow between the various poems and the different books. There is a consistency in language and style, a marvellous coherence. The individual poems are self-contained and yet echo other poems. Each book folds into the next. There is an urgency apparent here, an organic process at work. { 144pp, 105x180mm, January 2001; PB, £8.99, 1550711245:9781550711240 , Guernica Editions } |
| HAPPY SLAVES : A Duologue on Multicultural Deficit [William Anselmi & Kosta Gouliamos] In this duologue, William Anselmi and Kosta Gouliamos bring to a head their racial revisioning of the stale concepts of (multi)cultural politics. They discuss and dissect the irrationalities and destructiveness that have undermined the modern techniques of the neocolonial elites and demonstrate how these hegemonic elites have brought about social disruption and ethnocultural extermination on a scale never before conceivable. Instead of being an anti-thesis to the elites' practices, 'Happy Slaves' seeks to establish an organic critical apparatus. Such an apparatus is essential if citizens are ever to gain control over the dehumanised fantasies and aggressions that threaten to enslave the entire world. { 87pp, 105x180mm, October 2005; PB, £8.99, 155071225X:9781550712254 , Guernica Editions } |
| HARD EDGE [F G Paci] 'Hard Edge' is about art, modern art and the age-old art of seduction and betrayal, set in Ontario, New York, and Paris. It tells the story of a young teacher and writer, Mark Trecroci, and his relationship with Lisa James, a serious and dedicated painter who tries to live her art without compromises. { 186pp, 140x215mm, May 2005; PB, £8.99, 1550712128:9781550712124 , Guernica Editions } |
| HIPPOPOTAMUS [Luciano Erba] Focusing always on the 'spazi intermedi' or silent regions and objects that define our lives, 'The Hippopotamus' is a scrupulous record of common, daily events engaged in their sultry search for some cosmic meaning. Throughout the search, the poet reminds his readers of the illusory jungle that surrounds them with his wry wit and subtle verbal shifts. These poems are fleeting glimpses of a magnetic and capricious universe that draws its inhabitants -- often despite themselves -- back again and again to view and review its mysteries and reflections. { 116pp, 140x215mm, November 2002; PB, £7.50, 1550711571:9781550711578 , Guernica Editions } |
| HOLDING OUT [John L Falk] Wry and poignant, this second volume of poetry seeks out the contrasts between our inner and outer selves. Formal in style, these poems are surprising in their range of subjects, from cosmetic surgery in 'Botox Facial' to the ancient Greek underworld in 'Eurydice'. { 104pp, April 2005; PB, £8.99, 1550712144:9781550712148 , Guernica Editions } |
| HOLY LAND [Alda Merini] Following the same tradition as Dante, the forty poems of this work represent the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. Concentrating on the struggle to reach the 'promised land', author Alda Merini recalls the tales of Moses at Mount Sinai, the Israelites' 40 years in the desert, and Jesus' fast in the wilderness. This narrative uniquely intertwines religious histories with clues to the author's own search for the laws or powers that rule her movements and vision. { 57pp, 115x190mm, February 2002; PB, £7.50, 1550711490:9781550711493 , Guernica Editions } |
| HOMEGROUND [Edwards] Conceived as a quasi-opera, evocative of the passionate intensity of Italian operatic characters, this is not so much an 'Italian play' as a play of prisons and prisoners, frustrated human needs and passions, and dreams of home (4 men, 2 women, 1 boy). { June 1990; PB, £5.99, 0920717020:9780920717028 , Guernica Editions } |
| HOUSE IN THE PIAZZA [Kenny Marotta] Spanning the first half of this century, the short stories of this novel-like collection follows the fates of two families dislocated by the social upheavals of that time. { 203pp, February 1998; PB, £11.99, 155071032X:9781550710328 , Guernica Editions } |
| HOUSE IS PAST : Poems 1978-1998 [Pasquale Verdicchio] The House Is Past brings together writing from a period spanning 1978-1998. It is the compilation of a portion of a life spent in a language that is borrowed and adapted, the document of an instance of cultural transition and transformation. The poetic trajectory is not simply linear and transformative, because Pasquale Verdicchio engages a variety of forms and manipulates language towards the integration of many cultural sources. The tide of the collection, reminiscent of Adorno, is a reflection on this possibility of working in tandem between languages and cultures, between histories and existences. The House is Past refers to the house as both a place of historical reference and historical loss. The past is a point of departure and reference, and the house a flexible construct, the materials of which are assembled according to the poet's cultural needs. { 144pp, 105x180mm, January 2001; PB, £8.99, 1550711253:9781550711257 , Guernica Editions } |
| I SAW THE MUSES [Leonardo Sinisgalli] Leonardo Sinisgalli (1908-1981) was born in Lucania, Italy, and was a painter as well as a major poet. His images and metaphors arise from nature. His muses perch on an ancient oak, eating, not ambrosia, but acorns and berries. The dominant landscapes of his poetry are intimate, a world of affections, places and people, that transcend time and the particulars of culture and locality. His language is plain and sensuous; his voice, gentle. In his poetry are the wonder of a child and the ironies of a twentieth century man. { 97pp, 115x190mm, May 1997; PB, £7.50, 1550710257:9781550710250 , Guernica Editions } |
| ILLUMINATIONS [Arthur Rimbaud. Translated by Daniel Sloate] Text in English & French. This edition of Rimbaud's masterpiece marks the first translation of "Illuminations" that has been praised for its exquisite interpretation, particularly by American translators. { 130pp, March 2008; PB, £7.50, 1550712764:9781550712766 , Guernica Editions } |
| IMPALA [Carole David] Montreal in the 1960's. A popular singer Connie Ferragamo, abandons her five-year-old daughter, Lousia, and turns herself into the police. Whom did she murder and why? Years later, from old news paper clippings, tales her aunt told her, and a chance encounter with her father, Louisa decides to piece together the secrets of her family. But Louisa wonders if she will ever be able to find out the truth about her past. The author's style, spare and incisive, is the perfect vehicle for plunging us into the torments of a troubled life. Impala is a song about love and loss of illusions, it draws us into the story of two lovers, their embraces, their pain and their tragedy that are the sombre background to the desperate search for the truth their daughter has embarked upon. { 128pp, 115x290mm, September 1997; PB, £7.50, 1550710656:9781550710656 , Guernica Editions } |
| IN GREEN [Robin Blackburn] Robin Blackburn's poems move through family mythologies, shifts and mysteries. Connections and disintegrations both form and reform the figures depicted. Characters refuse burial. Images of breaking and mending, stories of exile, return and metamorphosis are ruminations on the nature of life, love and living memory in a world of change. Passion is the constant in these visions. { 68pp, 125x200mm, May 2002; PB, £7.50, 1550711547:9781550711547 , Guernica Editions } |
| IN ITALICS : In Defense of Ethnicity [Antonio D'Alfonso] D'Alfonso discusses the importance of ethnic awareness which places at the antipodes of territorial nationalism for which ethnicity is too often mistaken. Though it is the Italian perspective (which the author prefers to call Italic) that is favoured, the themes and concepts developed are applicable to other cultures and countries. "In Italics" is a polemical and unblushing defence for the individual's right to a collective Imaginary. { 350pp, March 2008; PB, £10.99, 1550712233:9781550712230 , Guernica Editions } |
| IN ITALICS : In Defense of Ethnicity [Antonio D'Alfonso] Poet and novelist Antonio D'Alfonso has been writing essays and giving in-depth interviews for twenty years. This collection contains the most important of these texts which have been reworked into a coherent entity. D'Alfonso discusses the importance of ethnic awareness which he places at the antipodes of territorial nationalism for which ethnicity is too often mistaken. The themes raised in this eclectic book relate to general culture, language, literature, film and publishing. Though it is the Italian perspective (which the author prefers to call Italic) that is favoured, the themes and concepts developed are applicable to other cultures and countries. In Italics is a polemical and unblushing defence for the individual's right to a collective Imaginary, no matter which country one lives in. { 265pp, 125x205mm, August 1996; PB, £11.99, 1550710168:9781550710168 , Guernica Editions } |
| IN THE CLAWS OF THE CAT [Claude Forand; Translated by Jo-Anne Elder] In a small town like Chesterville, homicides are as rare as government grants. So it's not surprising that the violent death of the richest man in town, J A Bussières, shakes up the entire population: who could hate the man enough to murder him, one rainy night, in the local cemetery? Roméo Dubuc, the Chief of Police, heads up the investigation. Several suspects have motives. Is it just a coincidence that J A's son, who hated his father, escaped from the psychiatric hospital the very day his father died? Was Marguerita Bussières tired of having a husband who cheated on her? Did Talbot, the grocer, a man with a violent temper, finally act on his threats against the man who was pursuing his young daughter? He had already told people he'd wring Bussières's neck if he kept it up. And then there's Jerrry Ménard: did the small-time bar owner stand to make a handsome profit from his financeer's death? In this detective novel, Dubuc's nose is to the grindstone as he tries to sift through the clues. { 206pp, 140x215mm, December 2006; PB, £11.99, 1550712586:9781550712582 , Guernica Editions } |
| IN THE SILENCE ABSENCE MAKES [Halli Villegas] This is a poetic mystery, a nightmare, an elegy. A lost girl and the loss of innocence both of the child and the society she is part of. Poems like photographs on the front pages of today's newspaper. Halli Villegas divides her time between Woodville, Ontario and Toronto. This is her second collection of poems. { 60pp, 140x215mm, January 2004; PB, £7.50, 1550711989:9781550711981 , Guernica Editions } |
| INCONTRO-ENCOUNTER-RENCONTRE [Umberto Eco] "It is impossible to think about the present or the future of universities without taking into account the fact that universities live in a world dominated by mass media." U Eco. Eco wrote this short essay when he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in letters by Laurentian University (Canada). The essay appears in English, French, Italian. { 60pp, December 1996; PB, £5.99, 155071063X:9781550710632 , Guernica Editions } |
| INFERTILITY RITES [Mary Melfi] Mary Melfi's first novel explores the emotional trauma of infertil-ity and its resulting marital conflicts. It is an intimate account of one woman's agonising experience to carry a pregnancy to full term. { 182pp, March 2008; PB, £7.99, 1550712292:9781550712292 , Guernica Editions } |
| INTERFERENCE [Concetta Principle] Interference, a collection of prose poems, was first drafted in Montreal during these intense months of the war. It is the story of a North American Penelope. Like her predecessor, the war in distant places interferes in the daily life of her weaving. But this modern Penelope also has the power of the Gods. She can see what is happening in the trenches of that distant place of Troy from the TV perch of America's safe Olympian domain: 'vision without morality.' { 64pp, 130x205mm, May 1999; PB, £7.50, 1550710893:9781550710892 , Guernica Editions } |
| INTERVIEWS TO LITERATURE [Jean Royer] REVIEW: "Royer's role here is similar to a translator's, where confidences and revelations from the artists he has talked to are translated into these texts he calls 'interviews to literature'. He polishes, he evaluates, he chooses, he animates -- in short, doing what a translator does to make the translated text into a reality in its own right, separate from yet intimately linked to the original. The texts here allow us to see the artists not only in their guarded moments -- when they make oft-uttered statements they hope the world will read and appreciate -- but especially in their unguarded, relaxed moments when we get a glimpse of the private person, the inner being it is a privilege to discover. Jean Royer has the gift of brilliantly showing us these moments and shaping them into unforgettable texts that remain in the mind as only literature can do." -- Daniel Sloate. { 195pp, 115x190mm, June 1996; PB, £11.99, 1550710087:9781550710083 , Guernica Editions } |
| INTERVIEWS WITH THE PHOENIX : Interviews with Fifteen Italian-Quebecois Artists [Fulvio Caccia] This book of interviews has a parallel structure: on one level it describes the careers of fifteen artists of Italian origin; on another level, invisible and subterranean, it depicts the life of the Italian community in Montreal which, instead of being interpreted, interprets, instead of being a passive object becomes a subject active in and through history, reflecting and refracting it in the course of its own metamorphosis, like the phoenix dying in the night and rising again in the morning. Persons interviewed: Francesco Iacurto, Guido Molinari, Mario Merola, Vittorio Fiorucci, Tonino Caticchio, Camillo Carli, Flippo Salvatore, Marco Fraticelli, Mary Malfi, Mario Campo, Paul Tana, Dominique De Pasquale, Marco Micone, Antonio D'Alfonso, and lamberto Tassinari. { 221pp, 130x205mm, December 1998; PB, £11.99, 1550710648:9781550710649 , Guernica Editions } |
| INVENTOR OF THE HORSE : And Two Other Short Plays [Campanile] Comedies written in the 1920s and early 1930s. The Big Bun (8 men, 1 woman); Inventor of the Horse (10 men, 2 women, extras); War (1 man). { January 1995; PB, £8.99, 0920717977:9780920717974 , Guernica Editions } |
| ISABELLE'S NOTEBOOKS : A Novel [Sylvie Chaput] Following the love story of painter Joseph Légaré's niece, Isabelle Forest, and novelist Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, Sylvie Chaput carefully and creatively chronicles her picture of Quebec in the 1830s. Chaput writes of the turbulence Quebec endured as her lovers battle the dangers of severe political unrest and a huge cholera epidemic. This novel also recalls the role of art, specifically painting, as a permanent force in a tumultuous world. { 265pp, 125x200mm, March 2002; PB, £8.99, 1550711423:9781550711424 , Guernica Editions } |
| ISLAND OF NIGHTINGALES [Caterina Edwards] These are stories of women -- pursing a first love, giving birth, ministering to a dying mother -- women searching for identity and place and purpose in an international world of professors and bricklayers, mafiosi and hockey stars. The stories of these women are contained in those moments when different cultures and different values intersect, when dislocation and fragmentation lead to awareness. Edwards takes her images from the spheres of art and science highlighting unexpected connections and, with her graceful, spare style, brings clarity, understanding and humour to basic questions of responsibility, desire and loss. { 144pp, 105x180mm, July 2000; PB, £8.99, 1550710222:9781550710229 , Guernica Editions } |
| ITALIAN WOMEN [Gianna Patriarca] This book is the first part of Patriarca's trilogy on Italian women. This book is in its third printing. { 77pp, January 1994; PB, £5.99, 155071001X:9781550710014 , Guernica Editions } |
| ITALIAN WOMEN IN BLACK DRESSES [Maria Mazziotti Gillan] This collection reads like a memo |