This Way Home: Selected and New Work [Paperback]

This book contains selections from Gianna Patriarcas previously published poetry books, as well as a number of new poems. It is a collection written by a woman in a time when the support and the encouragement was as limited as visibility. In many ways it is a collection of verses written as an act of survival and acknowledgement of existence.

Gianna is an award-winning author of 8 books of poetry, a childrens book and a collection of short fiction. Her work is extensively anthologized, adapted for Canada Stage and CBC radio drama. Her books appear on the course list of universities in Canada, USA and Italy and is featured in numerous documentaries.Italian Women and Other Tragediesis in its 4th printing and has been translated into Italian. Her other works includeAll My Fallen Angelas(Ianna Publications, 2016),To the Men Who Write Goodbye Letters(Ianna, 2020) andThis Way Home(Guernica, 2021). Forthcoming are her children's story (Second Story Press, 2022) and her novelThe Sicilian's Bride.

Gianna Patriarcas selected and new work attests to the rare capability of some poetry to lead you to the right place, where you are supposed to go. Vulnerable yet powerful. Intimate and familiar.

Patriarca's verses transcend the particular and reveal a universal story of linguistic displacement, physical displacement, social struggles, and alienation with the joys of living life as theatre in a community with one's food, belief, and heritage culture. Her poems speak to all immigrants who want their faces to be recognized. This Way Home is essential for understanding la storia di Canada.

Gianna Patriarca has contributed decades of intense and inspiring poetry to the Canadian literary landscape. She writes about the passion of immigrant communities, anger, love, the rough broken skin of workers' hands, fierce young women who defy their fathers' belts and ultimately the practicality of survival. Patriarca offers us halƒ(