Title: The Other Passenger = L'Altro Passeggero
Description: ghigno che sghignazza visi per me
(pesce purpureo per la polla gorgogliante)

The Other Passenger is a journey of discovery through mental and physical landscapes, from Canada’s Capital to Calabria, the author’s birthplace first, and across several migrant quarters of European cities, Turin to Brig, Lyon “so much like Ottawa” to Liège. We hear an archaic chant in a night train: grinner grinning faces for me / (fish purpled for the bubbled pool), a self-portrait, the intimate birth of writing, that inadvertently leads a young protagonist away from the purple gaze of his darker self ...
Subjects: Italian post-WWII diaspora
Places: Calabria, Turin, Brig, Lyon, Liège, Ottawa, Edmonton
People: Migrant quarters of Canadian and European cities
Time periods: 1972