Their Other Side: Six American Women and the Lure of Italy

by Helen Barolini

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"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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0823226298

ISBN13:9780823226290

Release Date:November 2006

Publisher:Fordham University Press

Length:448 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 5.9" x 8.3"

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