Dolce-Amaro Gianna Patriarca he has learned to bend this country has taken everything in some forgotten lifetime for most only years of feeling strange in the evenings for my father he was thirty-one he bends easily at fifty-seven the government sends him |
Dolce-Amaro
Gianna Patriarca lui ha imparato il modo questo paese gli ha tolto ogni cosa in un tempo ormai dimenticato per lo più per anni e anni sentirsi spaesati a sera per mio padre aveva 31 anni ora che ha 57 anni è del tutto piegato il governo gli invia Traduzione ©Franca Alaimo |
Gianna is an award winning author of 9 books of poetry and a book for children and has read her work in Canada, USA, Yale University, Purdue, Calumet, New York, Paterson New Jersey and in Italy at the University of Udine, Bologna and Naples Orientale.
Her work is extensively anthologized and has been adapted for both stage and radio dramas and featured in the documentary Enigmatico, Pier 21, The Italian/Canadians and Three Women, Adapting Lives, Adopting Lines.
She was the first recipient of the Arts and Science award from the Italian Chamber of Commerce in 2010 and was shortlisted for the Bressani Prize in 2009 for her collection My Etruscan Face and runner-up to the Milton Acorn People’s Poetry award for her book Italian Women and Other Tragedies, which is now in its 4th printing and translated into Italian in 2009 and presented at the University of Napoli, Orientale and Bologna.
Gianna’s book of short stories, All My Fallen Angelas was inspired by the lives of Italian/Canadian women in Toronto, published in 2016 by Inanna Publications. She is working on a novel and a new book of poetry.
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