Daughters for Sale

Daughters for Sale continues the author's journey begun in Italian Women and Other Tragedies, Gianna Patriarca's first collection of poems. Here is a rare compassionate search for understanding in lives dislocated by the immigrant experience. These are "songs in dialect" that Patriarca deciphers, voices not accustomed to being heard in any official culture. The reader will find in these accessible poems humour, irony, anger, despair, and reconciliation. Gianna Patriarca uses a pared-down language to reveal the fragility and intensity of the human heart.

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