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A Circular Journey - by Helen Barolini (Paperback)

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  • A Circular Journey collects for the first time in one book the essays that most powerfully define the unique gifts of one of America's most distinctive voices.
  • About the Author: Helen Barolini (1925-2023) was the recipient of numerous prizes, including an NEA grant and an American Book Award.
  • 200 Pages
  • Biography + Autobiography, Literary Figures

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A Circular Journey collects for the first time in one book the essays that most powerfully define the unique gifts of one of America's most distinctive voices.

These fifteen pieces, tracking some thirty years of a writer's life, come together to illuminate the stages and themes and places that mark Helen Barolini's art. Divided into three closely linked sections--"Home," "Abroad," "Return,"--the essays move through Barolini's worlds. Her love of literature began when, as a child growing up as an avid reader in Syracuse, New York, she was presented with a diary and told to write in it. Returning to the heritage of her Italian immigrant grandparents, she moved to Italy as a young writer. There she lived for many years, becoming acquainted with the brightest of Italy's literary lights. The accomplished poet, novelist, and critic she became now lives at home in two nurturing cultures, America and Italy both.

The essays are memoirs of her house on a street named for Henry James's grandfather, tales of literary journeys from Taos to Taormina, and Paris to Rome, as the young bride of a poet from the Veneto and, later on, as a distinguished writer whose explorations of identity and dislocation took her back to Italian inspirations.
From a delightful account of a writing fellowship in an exquisite villa overlooking the Italian lakes to her first trip back to discover distant family roots in the hills of Calabria, Barolini moves lyrically through the generations of her life, giving form to the influences that shaped her art and her sense of self--as an American, a woman, and a gifted daughter of the two cultures she has so powerfully imagined.

Praise for Helen Barolini

"An impassioned and magnificent contribution to our knowledge of what it has meant and means still to be an ethnic American and woman . . . . a book of heroic recovery and affirmation."--Alice Walker (on The Dream Book)

"Large in scope, in depth, and in the gift of narrative."--Cynthia Ozick (on Umbertina)



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. . .Easily balances the punch of an editorial writer with the poise of a poet.-- "--Fra Noi"

. . .Suceeds as a unified work that takes the reader on a stimulating and satisfying voyage.-- "--Quaderni d'italianistica"

A good read--even for the non-Italian!-- "--American-Italian Historical Association Newsletter"

It is not just a book about recollections, but a journey--a circular journey to revisit the roots that acquired Italian identity, the discovery of the self, the closing of a circle.-- "--The Italian Tribune"

What is best and most passionate about this memoir is following Barolini on her journey of self discovery as she becomes that woman.-- "--Feile-Festa"

In this beautiful collection of essays, Helen Barolini weaves a powerful tale of the illusive
nature of memory, the struggle for identity, and the yearning for balance and belonging in our
lives. With intelligence and grace, Barolini shows how we all carry pieces of the Old World in the New, and proves again to be a leading and inspiring voice for generations of Italian-American women.

-----Maria Laurino, author of Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America

A Circular Journey is an elegant, elegiac collection of essays documenting the experience of growing up Italian and female in suburban 20th-century America.-----Mimi Pipino, Lake Erie College

15 essays trace some 30 years in the author's life, from her childhood in Syracuse, NY to adulthood in her beloved Italy and America.-----Jamie Kyle McGillian, The Rivertowns Enterprise



About the Author



Helen Barolini (1925-2023) was the recipient of numerous prizes, including an NEA grant and an American Book Award. Her books included Umbertina and The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian-American Women.
Dimensions (Overall): 7.82 Inches (H) x 6.5 Inches (W) x .65 Inches (D)
Weight: .58 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 200
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Sub-Genre: Literary Figures
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Helen Barolini
Language: English
Street Date: December 1, 2010
TCIN: 1005110709
UPC: 9780823226160
Item Number (DPCI): 247-01-9804
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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