- FEBRUARY 2018 -
Usa
Literature
Maria Mazziotti Gillan Poetry can save your life
by Maria Lisella Interview with the poet and untiring cultural promoter based at the Passaic County Community College, in New Jersey March 2017
50 shades of love
by Giulia Poli Disanto In his collection of poetry, Sunny Days & Sleepless Nights, Tiziano Thomas Dossena delves into the emotions and mystery of life. Between light and shade March 2017
The Italian spirit behind Wally Lamb’s bestsellers
by Maria Lisella An interview with the author, of Italian, German and British origin, whose novels have repeatedly topped The New York Times best-selling list.The Italian background has an essential role in his work, often ignored by the American mainstream media January 2017
Joseph Tusiani Poetry as rebirth
by Sergio D’Amaro A recently-published volume, A Clarion Call, collects his most intense verses, written after the stroke which the Apulian-American poet suffered in 2014, shortly after his 90th birthday.Verses from which emerge a sense of regeneration and vital impulse. In the wake of Svevo, Montale and Moravia, in whom suffering led to a more powerful vision of life May 2016
Ninety years of Helen Barolini
by Sergio D’Amaro The Italo-American writer celebrated her birthday at the end of 2015.Her work has given an essential contribution to female emancipation and that of non-privileged ethnic minorities in America.
Umbertina and The Dream Book her crucial works January 2016
Tusiani, poetry as a song of victory over fragility
by Sergio D’Amaro In Ad Maiorem Baculi Gloriam, the collection of Latin lyrics chosen and translated by Emilio Bandiera, dynamic new poems from the American-Apulian poet now in his nineties.An undaunted challenge to the darts of time and the relentless march of the seasons May 2015
Joseph Tusiani When translation is an art
by Sergio D’Amaro L’arte della traduzione poetica, the recently published anthology with two essays, edited by Cosma Siani, explores the beauty and the pleasure of letting English speakers enjoy Italian literature.From Dante to Montale, from Machiavelli to Alfieri; these are just a few of the “greats” translated by the Apulian American poet February 2015
Joseph Tusiani Ninety years of literature between Italy and America
by Sergio D’Amaro A special supplement of the magazine Frontiere celebrates the “eighteen splendors” of the Italian American poet, writer and translator.“The same yardstick for the tops of the skyscrapers and for the old cottages in his Gargano town” January 2014
The Yawning Rabbit River Chronicle, politically correct fable for children and adults
by Maria Lisella Interview with Janine L. Kimmel, author of the work together with the Italian illustrator, David Ceccarelli.The story of a courageous rabbit thief, a vulnerable tortoise, of people “with” and “without” umbrellas that tells of life and the importance of forgiveness and tolerance November 2013
Grace Cavalieri, Queen of Poetry in FM
by Maria Lisella A writer, poet, and journalist she considers herself first Italian and then American.To bring poetry to people is her mission: for 36 years she has successfully hosted the radio program The Poet and the Poem March 2013
Hemingway and I
by Raffaele Nigro The writer, who originally hails from Lucania, but has lived in Puglia for a very long time, tells how Ernest Hemingway became a character in his latest novel, Fernanda e gli elefanti bianchi di Hemingway April 2011The beautiful West
Santa Fe, Taos, Abiquiù On the road in the heart of America’s deserts
21 shots by Lauren Berley to recount the silence, the immense spaces, the signs of life and the creativity of artists along the wild tracks of New Mexico June 2017
Colorado The magnificent Mexican rodeo at Longmont
Lauren Berley, in this extraordinary photographic report, captures feats and details that make every image an icon. Rodeos first started in Spain and Mexico to test the skill of the vaqueros in rounding up cows and it arrived only later in the United States. The Mexican rodeo at Longmont, in the state of Colorado, is a splendid example of equestrian skills and Mexican folklore on US soil, following a shared tradition and passion. No wall erected by politicians will ever be able to separate those who love the arts of horsemanship May 2017
4th of July in Santa Fe
The most deeply felt festivity in the US is certainly the 4th of July, commemorating the Declaration of Independence of 1776, when the 13 colonies seceded from the United Kingdom.It is celebrated with parades, fireworks and barbecues and is the time when the popular imagination runs riot, using the colors of the American flag in the most creative ways.
Madeleine Gehrig reports on the 4th of July in Santa Fe (New Mexico) where, with her usual ability to capture evocative images and telling details, she describes the strange or traditional outfits, eccentric accessories and vintage cars, in a triumph of patriotism and all-American stars and stripes September 2016
The spell-binding geometries of the White Sands National Monument
In New Mexico, at sixteen miles south-west of Alamogordo, in the mountain basin of Tularosa, this immense field of white sand dunes made of gypsum crystals stretches for 275 square miles. It is the largest area of gypsum dunes in the world. Madeleine Gehrig has caught its rare beauty; “paintings” rather than photos, in which the magic of these snow-white sands is highlighted July 2016
Arizona Blue Mesa. Where the petrified forest is tinged with blue
A new photographic report by Madeleine Gehrig of the Petrified Forest National Park, in the area known as Blue Mesa due to the grayish-blue color of the clay holding the logs.Along the road leading into the heart of the Park, one is totally immersed in a wild lunar landscape: the fragile soil makes paths impossible May 2016
Arizona The Enchantment of the Petrified Forest
Thirty-one splendid photos by Madeleine Gehrig dedicated to the arid and fascinating landscapes in the Arizona Petrified Forest National Park, about 25 miles east of Holbrook, county seat of Navajo County.The incredible sight of the trees that, buried under volcanic eruptions, waterways, ashes and sediment, have become petrified over millions of years January 2016
Bisti Badlands Moonscapes in New Mexico
In Madeleine Gehrig’s extraordinary photographic feature all the fascination of the Bisti Wilderness Area, known also as the “Bisti Badlands”. 4000 acres of wild, incredibly beautiful but little known territory.It’s in the desert of San Juan Basin, in the North West of New Mexico December 2015
Journey to the West, where the earth ends San Francisco
by Paolo Mele The Lands ends of the world, finibus terrae for the Ancients, are lands of unknown horizons, extreme places. One of the most famous and fascinating, the start and finish of the American continent, is San Francisco October 2015
“Christ in the Desert” Mysticism in the Abiquiu desert
In Madeleine Gehrig’s magnificent photo report the pictures of the Abiquiu desert (New Mexico) alternate with those of the Roman Catholic Benedictine monastery of “Christ in the Desert”, perfectly integrated in the surrounding landscape.The desert itself, arid but fascinating, and the building, austere but welcoming, bid us to meditate and pray May 2015