Table of contents for Italian American Writers on New Jersey: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose edited by Jennifer Gillan, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, and Edvige Giunta

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction - Jennifer Gillan, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, and Edvige Giunta

PART ONE - Looking Back

Combat Zones - Louise DeSalvo

Ocean City: Unto the Sons - Gay Talese

Hoboken: Three Circles of Light - Pietro di Donato

Trenton - Grace Cavalieri

Montclair Memories: Personal Reflections and an Oral Interview - Marisa S. Trubiano

Litania for My Mother's Hands - Edvige Giunta

Gardener - Edvige Giunta

A Trip Home - David Della Fera

Paterson, the Alpha & the Omega 1915: Mill Song - William Harry Harding

Rebel Girls - Jennifer Guglielmo

We Must Rebel! - Maria Barbieri

To the Women Workers - Maria Roda

Paterson: 1913 - Josephine Stifano

Time's End - Arturo Giovannitti

Dye House Strike, 1933 - Arturo Mazziotti

Downtown Paterson - Tom DeBlasio Carroll

The Tangerine Plymouth and the Gilded Cage - Rachel Guido de Vries

Paterson, New Jersey - Carole Maso

Public School No. 18, Paterson, New Jersey - Maria Mazziotti Gillan

In the Stacks at the Paterson Public Library - Maria Mazziotti Gillan

Growing Up Italian in Paterson, New Jersey - Maria Mazziotti Gillan

PART TWO - Blending In

Scents - Maria Laurino

Daddy,We Called You - Maria Mazziotti Gillan

Third-Generation Hawthorne - Jennifer Gillan

Race Riot - Tom Perrotta

Dorissa - Daniela Gioseffi

Strike One: Seaside Heights, New Jersey - Annie Rachele Lanzillotto

Lyndhurst Memories - Ed Smith

Quench a Plant's Thirst - Edvige Giunta

St. Therese - Edvige Giunta

Nevertheless, It Moves - Susanne Antonetta

PART THREE - Crossing Bridges

Hungry Dog - Agnes Rossi

Letter from New Jersey - Diane di Prima

On the Beaches ofWildwood, New Jersey - Mary Ann Mannino

June Wednesdays - Mary Ann Mannino

Suburban Backyards - June Avignone

Jersey Tomato Wars - Mary Ann Castronovo Fusco

I Check Other - Carla Guerriero

Miracle Baby: A Boy Named Phyllis - Frank DeCaro

Class Quartet - Janet Zandy

Interstate Commerce, New York & New Jersey Bound Moving to Wood-Ridge - Bill Ervolino

Pizza - Michele Linfante

Snowball - Rosette Capotorto

Passaic River Crossing - Flavia Alaya

Lincoln Tunnel: Jersey Bound - Salvatore Amico M. Buttaci

Summer Job - Frank Finale

PART FOUR - Changing Direction

Liberating Memory - Janet Zandy

Circolo - Michele Linfante

Bald - Loryn Lipari

Today Your Name Is Mary - Carole Maso

Carlton Fredricks and My Mother - Maria Mazziotti Gillan

Greenwood Lake - Diane di Prima

Elizabeth - Susanne Antonetta

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