by Luigi Bonaffini and Joseph Perricone
Round Table and Readings
Poets of the Italian DiasporaFordham University Press 2014, 1532 pages
Edited by Luigi Bonaffini and Joseph Perricone
Participants:
Luigi Bonaffini, Peter Carravetta, Joseph Perricone
Poets of the Italian Diaspora is part of a long-range project, by the editors and contributors, to expand the boundaries of the Italian literary canon.
In the century between 1870 and 1970, about twenty-seven million migrants left Italy to work and live abroad. As a result, the worldwide Italian diaspora reportedly numbers more than sixty million people. Until now, however, there has not been an anthology devoted to the literature of the Italian diaspora that places it in a global context. This landmark volume presents a truly international selection of works by more than seventy Italian-language
poets who are writing in countries from Australia to Venezuela. Their poetry is collected here into eleven geographical regions. The history and current state of Italian-language poetry in each region receives a critical overview by a knowledgeable scholar, who also introduces each poet and provides a bibliography of his or her work. All poems appear on facing pages in both Italian and English.
Luigi Bonaffini is professor of Modern Languages at Brooklyn College.
Joseph Perricone teaches in the Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures and in the Program of Literary Studies at Fordham University.
Peter Carravetta is D’Amato Professor of Italian
and Italian American Studies at Stony Brook University.