Italian Women & Other Tragedies

A woman’s passionate journey into memory and the reality of her immigrant experience. Gianna Patriarca’s first collection of poems, Italian Women and Other Tragedies, transports the reader into her world through a language direct and unadorned yet rich with images that haunt as they travel straight to the heart. A chronicle of paesani, family, lovers, this book confronts dislocations of the spirit and the poet’s own struggles for self-awareness with candour, passion and, at times, anger. Deeply personal, with an edge that is often raw and urgent, these poems are infused finally with a deep sense of humanity and simpatia.