This intimate and revealing study of the immigrant experience provides a detailed examination of Italian-American life at the turn of the century. Albanese gives an intimate and authoritative look at her grandfather, Frank Spiziri (1878-1958), in a body of poems that reveal immigrant religious life and explore the sensibility of a man who bridged the gap between artisan and gentleman, shoemaker and artist.
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This intimate and revealing study of the immigrant experience provides a detailed examination of Italian-American life at the turn of the century. Albanese gives an intimate and authoritative look at her grandfather, Frank Spiziri (1878-1958), in a body of poems that reveal immigrant religious life and explore the sensibility of a man who bridged the gap between artisan and gentleman, shoemaker and artist.
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