Adria Bernardi


			Books by Adria Bernardi

			Fiction

			Benefit Street: A Novel Adria Bernardi Cover art: detail of kilim fragment, central Anatolia, 1800, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum. Used by permission. learn more - how to purchase The University of Alabama Press Adria Bernardi's Benefit Street is a marvel to read. It is a book about people and the social networks they weave. It is a book about cities and how cities anchor those networks. Finally, it is about the tapestry of relationships cities, large and small, foster, regardless of ethnic and religious background. – Pablo Medina, author of The Cuban Comedy: A Novel


			Openwork: A Novel Cover art: “Backyard: Chicago (wire)” by Ann Worthing learn more - how to purchase Southern Methodist University Press “In prose as radiant and emotionally precise as Virginia Woolf’s, Bernardi illuminates the working lives and longings of coal miners and wet-nurses, seamstresses, stone masons, and housewives, brilliantly rendering a century in the life of an Italian-American family.” – Andrea Barrett, author of Archangel and The Air We Breathe


			The Day Laid on the Altar learn more - how to purchase University of New England Press / Plume “This exquisitely crafted novel. . . seamlessly interweaves three stories into a superb evocation of sixteenth century Italy. . . A reflective tale of art and spiritual survival.” – Margaret Flanagan, Booklist


			In the Gathering Woods Cover art: "Sui Generis" © 1999 by Ann Worthing learn more - how to purchase University of Pittsburgh Press “Craft and imagination distinguish this short-story cycle about a long bloodline originating in a remote Italian mountain village. . . Her distinctive technique, both panoramic and pointillist, has a unique power to make visible minor ancestral inheritances that time tends to rub out.” – Laura Demanksi, Chicago Tribune


			Nonfiction

			Dead Meander Cover art: “Am” © 2005–2006 by Ann Worthing learn more - how to purchase Kore Press Each essay is a fragment of memory that twines forward and back in time, place, birth and death,... – Eve Rifkah, author of The Penikese Island Leper Hospital: 1905–1921


			Translation

			The Rings of the Universe Selected Poems Ubaldo de Robertis Translation © 2016 by Adria Bernardi. Italian text © Ubaldo de Robertis. Cover art: Acruto Vitali (1903–1990), Tastiere (Linguaggio dell'Universo) / Keyboards (The Language of the Universe), 1963. learn more - how to purchase Chelsea Editions


			Chronic Hearing Selected Poems 1977-2012 Cristina Annino Translated by Adria Bernardi Cover art: “L’udito cronico: l’universo è questa foglia che mi tocca la testa” © 2006 by Cristina Annino learn more - how to purchase Chelsea Editions The first reading keeps us on the page as if it’s magnetized... – Nadia Agustoni


			Chernobylove The Day After the Wind Francesca Pellegrino Selected Poems 2008-2010 selected, edited, and translated by Adria Bernardi Cover art: “Soffio” © Paola Aloisio learn more - how to purchase Chelsea Editions If you look at each single word, you'll find a flinch in it, a sudden nervous twitch that makes it new and gives it a forcefulness all its own. – Gianmario Lucini


			Siren's Song: Selected Poetry and Prose 1989-2009 learn more - how to purchase Rinaldo Caddeo Translated from the Italian by Adria Bernardi Cover art © by Salvatore Carbone Chelsea Editions “A poetry for brain shocks, visions and encounters with elemental emblems of time and being: the moth, the bat, the infant, the statue, the tree, the hare, the leaf, the wind.” – Giorgio Barberi-Squarotti


			Small Talk learn more - how to purchase Raffaello Baldini Translated from romagnole dialect by Adria Bernardi Cover art “La solitudine del venditore di pallone” © 1968 by Guilio Turci Gradiva Publications poetry "Each translation manages to create a true 'character' — a persona through which we can hear the living sound of this bustling, crowded, factually packed, local life. In this, (Bernardi) performs with great effect the true ‘bringing-over’ task of the translator." – Geoffry Brock


			Page Proof learn more - how to purchase Raffaello Baldini Edited and Introduction by Daniele Benati Translated from the romagnole dialect by Adria Bernardi Bordighera Press theatrical monologue


			Adventures in Africa learn more - how to purchase Gianni Celati Translated from the Italian by Adria Bernardi The University of Chicago Press account of Gianni Celati’s journey through Senegal, Mali and Mauritania “(Adventures in Africa) is, like all the best traveler’s books, not a tourist book but a book of self-transport, self-investigation, self-transfiguration. That this ‘tourist’ has the nose, eyes, ears, curiosity, endurance, common sense and uncommon literary power to experience and then verbalize sights, sounds and odors, makes the book a good one to take on a trip to Mali, Mauritania and Senegal.” – Richard Stern


			Abandoned Places learn more - how to purchase Tonino Guerra translated from the romagnole dialect by Adria Bernardi poetry “. . . full of humor, harshness, loveliness, startling imagery, political consciousness and humanity. . . Guerra’s imagery, narrative and sense of timing — and Bernardi’s, in translation — produce stunning poems in English.” – Daisy Fried


			Nonfiction

			Houses with Names: The Italian Immigrants of Highwood, Illinois learn more - how to purchase University of Illinois Press “the gift of history alive” – Studs Terkel