Italian American Writers on New Jersey: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose Book

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
	Combat Zones	15
	Ocean City: Unto the Sons	25
	Hoboken: Three Circles of Light	34
	Trenton	39
	Montclair Memories: Personal Reflections and an Oral Interview	41
	Litania for My Mother's Hands	51
	Gardener	53
	A Trip Home	55
	1915: Mill Song	63
	Rebel Girls	68
	We Must Rebel!	85
	To the Women Workers	87
	Paterson: 1913	89
	Time's End	90
	Dye House Strike, 1933	91
	Downtown Paterson	92
	The Tangerine Plymouth and the Gilded Cage	94
	Paterson, New Jersey	100
	Public School No. 18, Peterson, New Jersey	102
	In the Stacks at the Paterson Public Library	104
	Growing Up Italian in Paterson, New Jersey	106
	Scents	111
	Daddy, We Called You	117
	Third-Generation Hawthorne	120
	Race Riot	128
	Dorissa	140
	Strike One: Seaside Heights, New Jersey	143
	Lyndhurst Memories	146
	Quench a Plant's Thirst	147
	St. Therese	149
	Nevertheless, It Moves	151
	Hungry Dog	157
	Letter from New Jersey	161
	On the Beaches of Wildwood, New Jersey	163
	June Wednesdays	165
	Suburban Backyards	166
	Jersey Tomato Wars	172
	I Check Other	174
	Miracle Baby: A Boy Named Phyllis	176
	Class Quartet	182
	Moving to Wood-Ridge	187
	Pizza	191
	Snowball	218
	Passaic River Crossing	221
	Lincoln Tunnel: Jersey Bound	225
	Summer Job	230
	Liberating Memory	235
	Circolo	244
	Bald	247
	Today Your Name Is Mary	253
	Carlton Fredricks and My Mother	260
	Greenwood Lake	265
	Elizabeth	270
	Contributors	283