With Your Words in My Hands: The Letters of Antonietta Petris and Loris Palma

Cover\nWith Your Words in My Hands\nTitle\nCopyright\nDedication\nContents\nForeword\nAcknowledgments\nFigures\nIntroduction: Love in the Midst of Migration\nPart One “Neither Here nor There” The Letters from September 1948 to December 1948\n	1 “That day an abyss opened under my feet” Mobility in the Immediate Postwar Era\n	2 “I will know how to wait knowing this is the last time” Writing and Waiting across National Boundaries\n	3 “This is America for the crazy!” Linguistic Currents in Postwar Montreal\n	4 “Christmas trees are everywhere” Reconciling a New Christmas Celebration\nPart Two “Worlds Apart, and Near to Heart” The Letters from January 1949 to July 1949\n	5 “A new year, a new life” Optimism and Melancholy Gazing into the Future\n	6 “Imagine your Nietta, sadder than ever” Traumas of Separation and Displacement\n	7 “It almost feels like you are already here” The Metonymy of Writing and Feelings of Proximity\n	8 “Did you think I was sleeping here?” Women’s Agency in Migration\n	9 “You are lovely, season of springtime” The Poetics of Nature and Writings of Distant Love\n	10 “Come on, my darling, it’s your turn now” Leaving for Love\nAfterword\nBibliography\nIndex