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Literature & Fiction

Barone, Dennis

Poetry

Potes & Poets Press

Newark

Potes & Poets Pr

Fiction. "ECHOES is 'up my alley' so to speak; writing that challenges itself ontologically all the way. This is poetry infiltrating prose, and glistens with a kind of spy-speak, code carefully balanced on code until the layering feels mica-like with a translucent opacity, casual banter with the enemy. Barone is a good writer with a good agenda" -Tim Davis.

Echoes

Coda

Spectacular Diseases

The House of Land

Abusing the Telephone

Drogue

Prose Poetry. In THE DISGUISE OF EVENTS, a chaos of assorted experiences and references resolve themselves into a heap of strange voices and conundrums. Outsiders and critics chime in mercilessly like a rowdy crowd awaiting an execution; scenes stand in for other scenes in eclectic flashes--nymphs are forced to inhabit body after body--all as if to assert that "choice remains ever out of our control." "The sentences link and make a puzzle or a map or a path in the wilderness, nevertheless a familiar wilderness turned strange"--Peter Ganick. Dennis Barone's work has appeared in the Chicago Review, The Prose Poem: An International Journal, and Quarter After Eight among others; in 1992 he held the Thomas Jefferson Chair, a distinguished lecturing award in the Netherlands. He currently teaches at St. Joseph's College in Connecticut.

The Disguise of Events

Quale Press

In Walking Backwards, life leans into the absurd to laugh while quietly relishing the beauty of a private thought. Loosely organized around an Italian-American theme, the characters and voices of these pieces consider the merits of Fergus Falls, being a gladiator or a poet, 45-minute operas, and the quest for a “new hit song.”

Walking Backwards

Fiction. Prose Poetry. PRECISE MACHINE is a collection of poetic fictions that swell in multiple dimensions. These pieces take us around the globe and through history in an epic of moments large and small: a bike's flat tire, a moment of teenage comeuppance, an Italian city destroyed by plague. Dennis Barone's prose seduces and derails, then ensnares again. He invites us at once to inhabit his stories and to retreat to the periphery to query how experience itself is recorded, catalogued and remembered. Infused not with certitude but with the far more human condition of ambivalence, these fictions are parables that do not patronize. Barone's work has appeared in the CHICAGO REVIEW, The Prose Poem: An International Journal, and Quarter After Eight, among others, and is the author of many books of poetry and fiction carried by SPD, including TEMPLE OF THE RAT and ECHOES.

Precise Machine

Literary

Uncovers an overlooked aspect of the Italian American experience. In Beyond Memory, Dennis Barone uncovers the richness and diversity of the Italian Protestant experience and places it in the context of migration and political and social life in both Italy and the United States. Italian Protestants have received scant attention in the fields of Italian American studies, religious studies, and immigration studies, and through literary sources, church records, manuscript sources, and secondary sources in various fields, Barone introduces such forgotten voices as the Baptist Antonio Mangano, the Methodist Antonio Arrighi, and his great-grandfather Alfredo Barone, a Baptist minister to congregations in Italy and Massachusetts. Examining the complex histories of these and other Italian Protestants, Barone argues that Protestantism ultimately served as a means to negotiate between Old World and New World ways, even as it resulted in the double alienation of rejection by Roman Catholic immigrants and condescension by Anglo-Protestants. Though the book focuses on the years of high immigration (1890–1920), it also looks at precursors to post-reunification Protestants as well as Protestants in Italy today, now that the nation has become a country of in-migration.

Beyond Memory: Italian Protestants in Italy and America (Italian American Culture)

History

Americas

State University of New York Press

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