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| Introduction: Why Don't Tell Mama! The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing? | |
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| Explanatory Notes and Caveats to the Introduction | |
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| From Under the Rose: A Confession | |
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| "Introduction to Rocchietti's Lorenzo and Oonalaska" | |
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| Selections, Lorenzo and Oonalaska (1835) | |
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| "Sinatra's 'Associations' with the Mob" | |
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| "Holy Cards," from Taking It Home: Stories from the Neighborhood | |
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| From Wish You Well | |
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| "Buried Alive by Language," from Chiaroscuro: Essays of Identity | |
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| From Umbertina | |
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| "Classic and Good," from More Italian Hours and Other Stories | |
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| "My Grandmother, A Chicken, and Death," from Too Much of a Good Thing Is Wonderful | |
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| "My Life in Funeral Parlors," from Joy Shtick: Or What Is the Existential Vacuum and Does It Come with Attachments? | |
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| From Claiming a Tradition: Italian American Women Writers | |
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| From Miss Giardino | |
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| "Story of My Weight," from Pray for Yourself and Other Stories | |
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| "Careless Love: How Women Get to Hell" | |
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| From "Macaronis," from Paper Napkins | |
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| "Grandmother," from Poems: New and Selected | |
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| From A Bridge of Leaves | |
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| "Ossi Dei Morti," from Terra Firma | |
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| "Small Acts," from Terra Firma | |
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| "True or False," from The Birds of Pompeii | |
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| "Useless Knowledge," from The Birds of Pompeii | |
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| "The Evil Eye," from The Collected Poems of John Ciardi | |
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| "In Place of a Curse," from The Collected Poems of John Ciardi | |
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| "On Flunking a Nice Boy out of School," from The Collected Poems of John Ciardi | |
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| "Statement," from The Collected Poems of John Ciardi | |
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| "Lifelines," from Mother Rocket | |
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| "Ellis Island" | |
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| "Youthful Religious Experiences," from Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit | |
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| "Poverty of Language" | |
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| "Infidel" | |
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| From Family Honor: An American Life | |
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| "The First Night of the Wake" | |
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| From Underworld | |
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| From Leaven of the Pharisees: The Dark Side of Italian-American Life | |
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| "I study Italian," from First Pressing | |
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| "I stash treasures," from Italian Notebook | |
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| From Paper Fish | |
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| From Vertigo: A Memoir | |
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| From Breathless | |
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| From "Ars Longa, Vita brevis?" | |
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| From Tender Warriors | |
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| From Christ in Concrete | |
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| "The Depot," from Shadows Burning | |
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| "Sabbioneta to Parma," from The Dog Star | |
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| From Recollections of My Life as a Woman | |
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| From The Brotherhood of the Grape | |
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| "Hail Mary," from Dago Red | |
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| From Wait Until Spring, Bandini | |
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| "The Old Italians Dying," from These Are My Rivers | |
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| From The Family of Max Desir | |
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| From A Perfect Time for Butterflies | |
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| From Tree of Dark Reflection | |
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| From Blood of My Blood: The Dilemma of the Italian-Americans | |
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| From The Italian-American Writer: An Essay and an Annotated Checklist | |
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| "The Tidal Wave," from Kissing the Bread: New and Selected Poems, 1969-1999 | |
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| "Mafioso," from Kissing the Bread | |
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| "Tailors," from Kissing the Bread | |
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| "Opening the Door: 19th Street, Paterson," from Things My Mother Told Me | |
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| "Secrets," from Things My Mother Told Me | |
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| "Cleared Away," from The Gods of Winter | |
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| "Money," from The Gods of Winter | |
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| "Planting a Sequoia," from The Gods of Winter | |
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| "For Grandma Lucia La Rosa, 'Light the Rose,'" from Word Wounds and Water Flowers | |
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| "American Sonnets for My Father," from Word Wounds and Water Flowers | |
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| "Woman with Tongue Sculpted in Cheek," from Eggs in the Lake | |
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| "Anniversary I," from The Collected Poems of Arturo Giovannitti | |
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| "Litania for My Mother's Hands" | |
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| From "MANAYUNK: Growing Up in Philadelphia During and After the War" | |
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| "Godfather II: Of Families and Families," from Off Center | |
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| From An Accidental Autobiography | |
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| "Who Will Marry You Now?" | |
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| "The Discourse of un' Propria Paparone" | |
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| From The Paper Dragon | |
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| From The Blackboard Jungle | |
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| From "The Kiss" | |
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| From Ulysses in Traction | |
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| "After Victory" | |
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| "Food and Fatalism" | |
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| From The Grand Gennaro | |
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| "Wear It in Good Health," from The Boys of Bensonhurst | |
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| "First Cousins," from Teaching Angels to Fly | |
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| From "Words," from Were You Always an Italian? Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America | |
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| From Leading with My Chin | |
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| From "Sitdown at the Heartland Hotel," from Lucchesi and the Whale | |
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| From Mount Allegro | |
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| From La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience | |
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| "Your Children Are Your Children, but Your Wife Is Just a Good Cigar" | |
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| "Duet," from The Great Wheel | |
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| "Show & Tell," from Salvage Operations | |
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| "The Old Men Are Dying," from Salvage Operations | |
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| "The Lion's Head," from The Art Lover | |
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| "Friend," from The Art Lover | |
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| From "The Virgin's Nose" (or Picking Up a Piece of the Pieta), from The Virgin Knows | |
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| From The Loss of the Miraculous | |
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| From We Ride a White Donkey | |
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| From Viva Madison Avenue! | |
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| From Dances with Luigi: A Grandson's Determined Quest to Comprehend Italy and the Italians | |
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| "The Shylock's Wedding," from Italian Stories | |
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| "Grandmother in Heaven," from Town Life | |
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| "1913," from Anthracite Country | |
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| "The Miner's Wake," from Anthracite Country | |
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| "Ida Parini (1890-1976)," from House of Days | |
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| From The Apprentice Lover | |
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| "Someday I Will Read 'Dover Beach,'" from Ciao, Baby | |
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| "Perfect Love," from Daughters for Sale | |
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| From "The Movies," from Growing Up Sicilian and Female | |
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| "Canticle from the Book of Bob" | |
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| "Lost Innocence of the Potato Givers," from The Body Mutinies | |
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| "Long Time Too Long," from The Oldest Map with the Name America: New and Selected Poems | |
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| From The Godfather | |
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| From The Fortunate Pilgrim | |
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| "Dedicated to an Old Friend Whose Kindness I Shall Never Forget" | |
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| From Benedetta in Guysterland: A Liquid Novel | |
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| From Everything and a Kite | |
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| From The Quick | |
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| "Video Blues," from A Kiss in Space: Poems | |
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| From "Ravioli and Rage" | |
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| From Huddle Fever: Living in the Immigrant City | |
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| "How to Marry an Italian-American Man" | |
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| "The Veteran," from The Dance at St. Gabriel's | |
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| From Unto the Sons | |
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| From Like Lesser Gods | |
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| "Failed Fathers," from The Shifting Web | |
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| "The Widows," from Conversation with Johnny | |
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| "Song of the Castrato," from Conversation with Johnny | |
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| From Misfits and Remnants | |
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| From Astoria | |
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| From A Cup of the Sun | |
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| List of Contributors | |