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Author Murphy, Jim, 1947-2022.

Title Pick & shovel poet : the journeys of Pascal D'Angelo / by Jim Murphy.

Publication Info. New York : Clarion Books, [2000]
©2000

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA Bio Murphy Pic 2000    Available  ---  Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer.
Description xii, 162 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
age Children
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-156) and index.
Summary A biography of an Italian peasant who immigrated to America in the early twentieth century and endured poverty and the difficult life of an unskilled laborer, determined to become a published poet.
Contents Word about Pascal D'Angelo -- "We were going into the unknown"-- "Continuous startling whir" -- con artists, payoff's, and doctors -- "I entertained great doubts" -- Island of tears -- "We set to digging" -- Birds of passage -- "I am noting more than a dog" -- "Now I began to read: -- "Great lesson of America" -- "When the night comes" -- Bibliography and sources -- Index.
Provenance Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer.
Subject D'Angelo, Pascal, 1894-1932.
Italian Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Italian Americans -- Biography.
Immigrants -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Immigrants.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Abruzzo (Italy) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Italian Americans.
Italy -- Abruzzo.
Genre/Form Juvenile works.
Biographies.
Added Title Pick and shovel poet
ISBN 0395776104
9780395776100