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Journey Home

Name: Journey Home
Author: Ross Talarico
ISBN: 9781884419348

by Ross Talarico, Rose Ventturelli, Johnny Antonelli, Louise Nicastro, Tony Sciolino

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Overview

Cultural writing. THE JOURNEY HOME is a compilation of eleven Italian-American narratives transcribed and edited by Ross Talarico and a poem of Talarico's own, An Utterance of Joy. Ross Talarico has a rare talent: he captures the inner thoughts of 'ordinary' people and reveals their extraordinary visions -Studs Terkel.

About the Author, Ross Talarico

Ross Talarico lives, writes, and teaches in Escondido, California. A New Jersey native, he is the former Langston Hughes Poet/Scholar at the University of Kansas. His book Spreading the Word: Poetry + the Survival of Community in America was published by Duke University Press and won The Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize.