How to sing to a dago and other canzonetti
By: Rachel Guido deVries.
Series: Essential poets series ;; 69; Essential poets ;; 69.
Publisher: Guernica
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Toronto; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 69
Other titles: How to sing to a dago
Description: The 'Dago' in the title of this book of poems sings with irreverence and with fire. Whether she is writing about her family origins in such poems as 'Italian Grocer' or 'Mamma', or in the long evocative closing poem, 'Birds Remembering', Rachel Guido deVries's perspective is that of a southern Italian American woman looking first at the world of family and lovers and friends, then focusing on the dominant culture in which she and her cast of characters must live.

What results is an unusual collection, at times startling, always passionate.