2006
| ?Our lives are Swiss, ? Emily Dickinson wrote in 1859, ?So still?so cool.? But over the Alps, ?Italy stands the other side.? For Dickinson, as for many other writers and artists, Italy has been the land of light, a seductive source of invention, enchantment, and freedom. So it was for Helen Barolini, who, as a student in Rome after World War II, wrote her first poetry and gave birth to her own creative life, reinvigorating her mother tongue. In this book, Barolini celebrates the lives of other w....[more] |
1988
| Born of Italian-American parents, Helen Barolini rediscovered her culinary heritage when she married Italian writer Antonio Barolini and lived for some years in Italy. Festa is a year-long feast of memories and delicious, traditional Italian dishes-from St. Nicholas sweetmeats in December and perciatelli with sardines and fennel for March's St. Joseph's Day, to figs with prosciutto for summer's Ferragosto and pumpkin gnocchi for an American Thanksgiving in Italy. |
2006
| A Circular Journey collects for the first time in one book the essays that most powerfully define the unique gifts of one of AmericaÆs most distinctive voices. These fifteen pieces, tracking some thirty years of a writerÆs life, come together to illuminate the stages and themes and places that mark Helen BaroliniÆs art. Divided into three closely linked sectionsùôHome,ö ôAbroad,ö ôReturn,öùthe essays move through BaroliniÆs worlds. Her love of literature began when, as a child growing up as an a....[more] |
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