In My Neighborhood

By Giovanna Capone

A lyrical, humorous, and provocative first book documenting Giovanna Capone's search for a political and personal identity as an Italian-American raised in an old world traditional family, who later claims herself as a lesbian and a political activist

$9.95 (pb) ● $7.95 (eb)

Publisher: Bedazzled Ink Publishing Company

Available in: Paperback and e-book

ISBN: 9781939562708 ISBN-10: 1939562708

Published: December 30, 2014

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About the Book

In My Neighborhood contains both poetry and prose.

From beginning to end, through poetry, essay, and memoir, Giovanna explores her journey both emotionally and geographically as she leaves the hub of her ethnic identity in New York and enters the world beyond her childhood.

Her writing is bound by a search for love, freedom, and ethnic identity, and by her feminist politics and point of view.

Her beloved heritage is an ever-present touchstone as she examines her roots and describes her adult life and developing consciousness.

Praise for In My Neighborhood

"A living, breathing love song to the poet’s heritage and the many ways it shaped the fierce and independent woman that she has become today.”

--Maria Mazziotti Gillan, American Book Award winner for All That Lies Between Us

"Capone paints a vivid picture, whose themes of love and loss will resonate with many, as they are simultaneously both personal and universal.”

--Mary Saracino, novelist, poet, and memoir writer, author of Heretics: A Love Story

About the Author

Giovanna Capone is a poet, fiction writer, and playwright raised in an Italian American neighborhood in New York. Her work has appeared in Curaggia: Writing by Women of Italian Descent, Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry, Avanti Popolo: Italian-American Writers Sail Beyond Columbus, Fuori: Essays by Italian/American Lesbians and Gays, and The Paterson Literary Review, among others. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

MORE ABOUT GIOVANNA

In the Media

Review: Volume 27, Spring 2016, Number 1

A Portrait of the Artist as a Woman on the Threshold

Pasquale Verdicchio, Voices in Italian Americana

A Portrait of the Artist as a Woman on the Threshold

Cristina Di Maio, Altre Modernità, University of Milan

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