Polvere di stelle: liriche [Stardust: lyrical poems]. Brooklyn: Dimola Printing Co., 1952.

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Polvere di stelle: liriche [Stardust: lyrical poems]. Brooklyn: Dimola Printing Co., 1952.

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Maria Jaconis, author of this self-published work, was born in Aprigliano (CS) in 1931 and died in Cosenza in Calabria on March 16, 2023.

In between, she lived in the United States, first in Accord, New York and then in the Bronx, from 1947 until 1964. Some of the poems in this, her only published book length work, were written when she was a teenager and had moved recently with her mom and sister to the U.S. to join her dad, who had immigrated years earlier.

The author worked as a bilingual secretary for the Manhattan office of the Banco di Roma. Maria and her husband, Gaetano Cosentini, were married in 1957, and in 1964, they returned to Italy. Though she lived in Italy for more than a half century after she left America, she declared that New York was her favorite city.

Some of the poems in this collection were published in the 1950s in New York in a bi-lingual monthly magazine called "Italamerican," which as of December 1953, celebrated 18 years of continuous publication. (There are no issues of this magazine in the Collection yet.) One of the columns, "Scrittori italiani d'America" in Italian was written by Ario Flamma (q.v. in the Collection), including in the September 1953 issue a Flamma piece about Federico Mennella (q.v. in the Collection).

The author also wrote lyrics to at least one song.

Thanks to the author's daughter, Angela Miskell, who generously supplied me with all of the above biographical information.

Query whether Jaconis is one of the Poeti Calabresi in America of Pasquale Spataro.

Creator

Maria Jaconis

Publisher

Dimola Printing Co.

Date

1952

Format

21 x 13.5cm; 71 p.

Language

Italian

Citation

Maria Jaconis, “Polvere di stelle: liriche [Stardust: lyrical poems]. Brooklyn: Dimola Printing Co., 1952.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed March 29, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/201.

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