At Home in the New World (Via Foloios, 132) - Softcover

Terrone, Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1599541270 ISBN 13: 9781599541273

Publisher: Bordighera Press, 2018

Synopsis

Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Italian Studies. "I love this collection of essays by Maria Terrone, an exceptionally talented woman of Italian American ancestry who grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, with maternal roots firmly established, as she shows us, in Sicily's long history. Subtly crafted, witty, honest, it brings to life a New York one instantly recognizes. Her New York is an international city, ranging from the factories of Long Island City to a Fifth Avenue beauty company to shooting ranges to Catholic schools, a world where a woman might lose herself in preparing foods from many countries, to hunting down out-of-this world watches, gloves and shoes, while taking those graffiti-soaked subways to summer jobs in New York's cubicles and windowless offices. All of it memorably realized here on page after page in a language which only really fine poets can evoke, realizing for us, her lucky readers, a world shared in truth by so many of us."--Paul Mariani

About this title

About the Author:

Maria Terrone is the author of A SECRET ROOM IN FALL (McGovern Award, Ashland Poetry Press), The Bodies We Were Loaned (The Word Works), the chapbook American Gothic, Take 2 (Finishing Line Press), and EYE TO EYE. Her poetry, which has been published in French and Farsi and nominated four times for a Pushcart Award, has appeared in magazines such as Poetry, Ploughshares, Hudson Review, Poetry International, and Crab Orchard Review and in more than 20 anthologies. She is the recipient of the Mathiasen Award; Elinor Benedict Prize in Poetry; Allen Tate Memorial Award; and Willow Review Award in Poetry. Terrone's creative nonfiction has appeared in such publications as Witness, Green Mountains Review, The Common, Briar Cliff Review, Potomac Review, The Evansville Review and Litro (UK). The title essay of her latest book, "At Home in the New World," was based on her piece commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum and performed in several Jackson Heights, Queens, locations for its stillspotting nyc project.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bordighera Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1599541270
• ISBN 13: 9781599541273
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180