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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