Italian Women in Black Dresses

Written to read like a memoir, this collection of poetry details the life of a family across generations and provides a moving and haunting portrait of the Italian mother who is the center around which this family revolves. But this is much more than a story about ethnicity; it transc<%END%>s any single identity and explores instead the many ways in which people learn to identify themselves.

Author Biography: Maria Mazziotti Gillan is the director of the poetry center at Passaic County Community College. She is the author of Where I Come From and Things My Mother Told Me.