Cu tìa avissi avutu furtezza e Casteddu: With You I Could Have Had Fortress and Castle: A Life in Poetry

Carmela Galante, motherless within a month of her birth and orphaned at nine years, lost the comforting familiarity of her native place at the age of eleven only to be torn from family and detained alone for two weeks on Ellis Island at Thanksgiving time, 1921. Loss and emotional abandonment emerge as life themes in a cache of poetry styled in the age-old manner of Sicilian story telling. Products of a creative gush in 1964, the poems are an autobiographical explosion of reflection. In the ...