Ciao, Baby (Essential Poets Series 97)

By Gianna Patriarca

Reconciliation is the hard and bitter prize the poet seeks in the faces and stories of family, friends and paesani. She examines her immigrant roots in a passionate poetry unique for its direct... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550710966
• ISBN13: 9781550710960
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Guernica Editions Inc
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.2" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Brava!

Gianna Patriarca deserves a well-earned "Bravo," or more correctly put in Italian "Brava," for her collection of poems in Ciao, Baby. This poet proffers the intimate details of the lives of those who manifest a greater awareness of the background of their grandparents, parents and themselves and how they can be made to feel excluded and slighted. Patriarca praises with wit and conviction on what appears to be the 'ordinary' yet she brings the reader closer to understanding the struggles of the heart for self-affirmation. She captures her familiar and familial world in lower case letters. The "i"s' are not capitalized in her poems to emphasize further the feelings of those who do not fit in the norm or are part of the standard-yet they have been given a voice. This poet conveys a clear and vivid account of the complex issues of acceptance and redefinition that applies to those who are still sifting through and shaking off the negative aspect of the heritage of their ancestors and affirming the positive implications in a different environment. EF Evangelista Luxembourg