Italy in Mind: An AnthologyAlice Leccese Powers Comprising short stories, novel excerpts, essays, journal entries, letters, and poetry. Italy in Mind captures all the contradictions of the Italian scene: enduring tradition and trendy consumerism, ravishing landscapes and urban sprawl, demonic bureaucracy and unvanquishable human warmth. Each entry is accompanied by a biography of the author, and the entire collection is preceded by a lively introduction by editor Alice Leccese Powers. The result is a work of enchantment, a tribute both to Italy and to generations of literary travelers. |
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Page 48
... face gathered on the eyes of a child measures me from an alleyway . The child stirs , but the face has lost its motion : the face stares at the traffic and the child picks with one finger at a scab on his knee . Not looking at it . Not ...
... face gathered on the eyes of a child measures me from an alleyway . The child stirs , but the face has lost its motion : the face stares at the traffic and the child picks with one finger at a scab on his knee . Not looking at it . Not ...
Page 58
... face , broadest at the bottom of the cheeks , which for those five minutes is all wistfully racked by the incapacity of any human art to express such beauty as the heart perceives ; the beauty of the lady at the table is also too much ...
... face , broadest at the bottom of the cheeks , which for those five minutes is all wistfully racked by the incapacity of any human art to express such beauty as the heart perceives ; the beauty of the lady at the table is also too much ...
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... face is very much like some faces in the early pictures ; little , dry , definite faces , that must have had a good deal of expression , but almost always the same one . Indeed , I can show you her portrait in a fresco of Ghirlandaio's ...
... face is very much like some faces in the early pictures ; little , dry , definite faces , that must have had a good deal of expression , but almost always the same one . Indeed , I can show you her portrait in a fresco of Ghirlandaio's ...
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HOMER BIGART | 3 |
HAROLD BRODKEY | 9 |
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING | 19 |
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