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Title: Home Is a Foreign Country by Rina Ferrarelli ISBN: 0-929914-19-8 Publisher: Eadmer Pr Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $20.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Review from Lyn Ferlo
Comment: "The poems in this book weave a kind of melancholy odyssey by one who had been forced to become a spectator at her own party; never bein fully allowed to enjoy being either fish or fowl. It is a story of an interrupted life, one which ended far from where it should have given its beginnings and the seduction in this story is the ease with which one's own sense of non-belonging and longing for is constantly being evoked. The memories of childhood are clearly laid out and simply drawn and you find yourself basking in the warmth of those memories when a line or two later the question is asked, 'Did it really happen just that way?' With this work, Ferrarelli has let them out and given us a treasurehouse of images, all of them hers, some of them reading as ours. You will read this book at least twice as you linger over the phrases and images..." Lyn Ferlo, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Volume 7, number 2, Summer/Fall, 1997, 16-17.

Rating: 5
Summary: Author's biography
Comment: Rina Ferrarelli came from Italy at the age of fifteen. She received the Italo Calvino Prize from the Columbia University Translation Center and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Her work has been publised or is forthcoming in journals and anthologies such as: American Sports Poems, Artful Dodge, Chelsea, College English, The Hudson Review, International Poetry Review, International Quarterly, Kansas Quarterly, Images, Italian Americana, Laurel Review, Literary Review, Looking for Home, Mundus Artium, New Orleans Review, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Tar River Poetry. She teaches English and translation theory at the University of Pittsburgh.

Rating: 5
Summary: Publisher's blurbs
Comment: It is a pleasure to find a poet like Rina Ferrarelli who writes about everyday experience in a fresh, bright way -- more so if the person in question is a woman, and Italian who imigrated to the United States in her teens and began her professional life translating into English contemporary poets such as Quasimodo, Serini, and Sinisgalli. Her recent poetry is characterized by a strong feeling for the world of domestic life, with its quiet but powerful emotion beautifully rendered through and evocation of humble but important objects and an elegant use of color. She is intensely feminine in her work, dealing with fundamental human values. The underlying pattern in Ferrarelli's poetry is the continuous interplay between present and past, a past subtly portrayed with nostalgia but also with a certain detachment. She enriches her poems by allusions to major Italian poets, explores a wide variety of metrical and rhythmic possibilities, and shows considerable technical virtuosity. From her own personal experience the writer is, at the same time, profoundly aware of the problem of migration and making a fresh start in an alien country. In this sense her poetry is especially relevant, then forced or voluntary migration is the destiny of so many persons. Comments by Alberta Fabris Grube, University of Venice. Ferrarelli's poems provide two sets of instructions. Once set explains: if you open this, you will find a song for living. The other set suggests: if you want to learn to do such songs, read this again and again. Comment by Will Stubbs, Saint Vincent College Rina Ferrarelli's poems tell a story, and old story about loss, family, immigration and the collision of cultures which is part of the weave of American life. What is new, refreshing, subtle and intellectually stimulating is the poet's fiercely unsentimental attitude towards this story. She notices what others have overlooked: How it feels to open CARE packages from the States, how to understand the tragically early deaths of parents, the look and feel of handmade linens. Full of sensory detail, these poems convey the texture of extraordinary daily life. Comment by Pat Dobler, Carlow College.