The writing of the book was a long process. When I started, I didn't see what I saw when I came to the final version of this manuscript. When I started writing this, I saw myself only as a failure of a scholar. When I finished, I saw that everything I strove for was meaningless in the new decolonized academy. I still think the academy is a colonizers project, a relic of King Arthur's round table of knights, a world of landed gentry, so the decolonizing project is not complete… and also the academy is being taken over by a market economy, degrees are monetized, students purchase credentials as clients. So on the one hand we have decolonization of academic elitism and on the other, a kind of capitalist revision of education.

After close to eighty years of poems, short stories, novels, and essays, readers have the right to ask what is an Italian Canadian writer if there is no legal justification for such an ID. There are three possibilities: you own the Italian passport, you own the Canadian passport, or you own both. Only if you have both passports, have you the right to consider yourself an Italian and a Canadian. Otherwise you are either an Italian or a Canadian. Nonetheless, at some point, a few writers of my generation brought together both identities, and in so doing cracked open our conception of personal testimony. I needed to delve into what had been posited by this agglutination.

Domenico Capilongo’s latest book of poems is a blast-to-the-past, more specifically the 1970s. It’s a series of prose poems based on words added in the dictionary the year the poet was born.

Darlene Madott continues her deep dive in the world of Canadian law through a much-needed feminist lens. The prose is Winners and Losers smooth, deliciously non-linear, and like a good meal, totally satisfying.

Rocco De Giacomo's fourth book of poetry, Casting Out, is so well-crafted; it's spellbinding. He is the author of three other poetry collections and numerous international literary journal publications.

Antonia Facciponte is a rising star of Canadian poetry. She has had her work published in some of the top literary journals and is a recipient of impressive scholarships. Her first collection of poetry, To Make a Bridge, is an outstanding debut which is wonderfully crafted with so much passion, heart, and beauty.

Terri Favro's much-anticipated novel, The Sputnik Sisters, is a funny, fast-paced hit in any multiverse. Favro is a superstar novelist, graphic novelist, and non-fiction award winning Toronto writer.

Gianna Patriarca is at the point in her poetic career where her work has received the honour of being collected into one amazing volume for everyone to enjoy. This Way Home also includes stunning new poems master-crafted in Patriarca’s signature heart-felt, intimate poetic style. She is the award-winning writer of over eight books of poetry, short fiction, plays, and children’s books.

Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli effortlessly weaves and challenges our notions of culture, romance, and identity smoothly throughout her captivating new book of short stories, Pigeon Soup & Other Stories. It also had the honour of being a finalist for The 2021 American Book Fest Best Book Awards.

Joe Fiorito's latest collection of poetry - All I Have Learned Is Where I Have Been - is masterfully crafted and full of powerfully unflinching observations. Fiorito is an award-winning writer of eight books, and former nationally recognized journalist.

Agata De Santis is an award-winning, passionate filmmaker, producer, and writer. She is the founding president of Redhead Productions, which makes thought-provoking documentaries, and the founding Editor-in-Chief of italocanadese.

Luciano Iacobelli has done it again. His newest collection of poetry, Dolor Midnight, takes us deep inside the world of the gambler at roulette-wheel speed, and never disappoints.