Breath of the Onion
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Full Title: Breath of the Onion: Italian-American Anecdotes
Author: Franco Pagnucci
Description: Breath of the Onion: Italian-American Anecdotes is a collection of prose pieces and a few old, family recipes. Beginning in a twelfth-century Tuscan mountain village in the 1940s, Pagnucci celebrates a handful of Italian characters, some of whom immigrate to Illinois. Then he moves on to a short visit to Italy after forty years, and deals with life in the suburbs west of Chicago with the pressures the New World imposes on an ethnic culture. Language, customs, and values are affected and modified, often with humor and a new understanding.
About the Author: Franco Pagnucci, emeritus professor of English at UW-P, has published storytelling books for teachers and students and five volumes of poetry: Tracks on Damp Sand (2014); a chapbook Imprints of Your Tires on Damp Sand (2012); Ancient Moves (1998); I Never Had a Pet (1992); Out Harmsen’s Way (1991); as well as two poetry anthologies: New Roads Old Towns (1988) and Face the Poem (1979). His essays have appeared in such publications as The Christian Science Monitor and Commonweal. Poems of his have been published in many periodicals and anthologies, including: News of the Universe, American Voices, and the Best American Poetry, 1999. He and Susan Pagnucci, a paper artist, live in the lake country of northern Wisconsin, where they work on handmade poetry books.
ISBN: 978-0-87839-791-4
Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Page Count: 72
Publication Date: March 2015
Author: Franco Pagnucci
Description: Breath of the Onion: Italian-American Anecdotes is a collection of prose pieces and a few old, family recipes. Beginning in a twelfth-century Tuscan mountain village in the 1940s, Pagnucci celebrates a handful of Italian characters, some of whom immigrate to Illinois. Then he moves on to a short visit to Italy after forty years, and deals with life in the suburbs west of Chicago with the pressures the New World imposes on an ethnic culture. Language, customs, and values are affected and modified, often with humor and a new understanding.
About the Author: Franco Pagnucci, emeritus professor of English at UW-P, has published storytelling books for teachers and students and five volumes of poetry: Tracks on Damp Sand (2014); a chapbook Imprints of Your Tires on Damp Sand (2012); Ancient Moves (1998); I Never Had a Pet (1992); Out Harmsen’s Way (1991); as well as two poetry anthologies: New Roads Old Towns (1988) and Face the Poem (1979). His essays have appeared in such publications as The Christian Science Monitor and Commonweal. Poems of his have been published in many periodicals and anthologies, including: News of the Universe, American Voices, and the Best American Poetry, 1999. He and Susan Pagnucci, a paper artist, live in the lake country of northern Wisconsin, where they work on handmade poetry books.
ISBN: 978-0-87839-791-4
Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Page Count: 72
Publication Date: March 2015