THE LAUNDRESS
CATCHES HER BREATH
by Paola Corso

"Corso focuses like a Leica on the details
of daily urban working class life from
a fiercely rendered narrative perspective.
Pioneering a mode of tough yet poignant
documentary verse, Corso draws us into the
grainy, grimy world of factory and clothesline,
diner and lung disease with extraordinary skill.
Her collection is in fact breathtaking."

—Sandra M. Gilbert, author of Belongings

 
"a crazy, gorgeously-crafted romance
of the American worker."

—Julia Kasdorf, author of Poetry in America

ONCE I WAS TOLD
THE AIR WAS NOT
FOR BREATHING
by Paola Corso

"Corso documents dangerous work conditions
in mills and sweatshops, or anyone downwind
of the industrial polluters' carcinogenic fumes.
Tragically, much of our air now 'is not safe
for breathing,' but these essential and
heart-breaking poems are pure oxygen.
Breathe deeply and learn from this wise poet."

—Maggie Anderson, author of
Windfall: New and Selected Poems

CATINA'S HAIRCUT
A NOVEL IN STORIES
by Paola Corso

"Corso follows an Italian family through
four generations from the Calabrian town
of San Procopio to Pittsburgh in this fable-like
follow-up to Giovanna's 86 Circles....
The stories, individually, find moments
of inspired, ethereal revelation."

—Publishers Weekly

GIOVANNA'S 86 CIRCLES
AND OTHER STORIES
by Paola Corso

"...memorable and entrancing...powerful
in the moment thanks to the imagery's
dream-like density."

—Publishers Weekly

POLITICS OF WATER:
A CONFLUENCE
OF WOMEN'S VOICES
Edited by Paola Corso and Nandita Ghosh

A Special Issue of
International Feminist Journal of Politics
with guest editors' introductions,
critical essays, narratives, poetry,
and book reviews that respond to
a growing concern for the unequal access
men and women have to water
in an increasingly fragile
physical environment.