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The Fig Thief

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Pub Date Oct 01 2025 | Archive Date Sep 30 2025


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Description

These poems rise out of the page and take you by the hand. Belfiglio explores the raw truth of an immigrant family across generations, from the point of view of a child moving into womanhood. Her journey steers us from rural Sicily to urban America. In a combination of grounding narrative and sensory lyrical writing this book delivers a deft eye for finding meaning in the commonplace. It is a heartfelt path of defining oneself at the intersection of queerness, ethnicity, and spirituality. Belfiglio examines identity through the lenses of ethnicity, sexuality, gender, and feminism, always bringing one in deeper, allowing them to connect to their own unique voyage. This vulnerable and grounded story will help readers enhance what is most important—letting their own truth shine.

These poems rise out of the page and take you by the hand. Belfiglio explores the raw truth of an immigrant family across generations, from the point of view of a child moving into womanhood. Her...


A Note From the Publisher
USD Price, $17.95.

Themes of LGBTQ+ culture/identity/love and mental health are relevant to current social movements.

The author's manuscript, The Fig Thief, was a finalist for the Luria Frasca Prize (Bordighera Press), and the 3 Mile Harbor Press Prize.

USD Price, $17.95.

Themes of LGBTQ+ culture/identity/love and mental health are relevant to current social movements.

The author's manuscript, The Fig Thief, was a finalist for the Luria...


Marketing Plan

Pitching to local media in Brooklyn, New York, some bigger New York publications, and Italian-American media

Pitching to queer/lesbian, feminist, Italian-American, immigration, identity focused publications, and to NYC poetry magazines

Specifically, submitting to Antioch Review, Foglio, Tin House (she worked/was an editor for these places), and poetry publications like American Poetry Review

Possible readings/launches in Brooklyn, NY, and Italian-American events/reading series

Submitting to New York literary festivals and American poetry awards

Pitching to local media in Brooklyn, New York, some bigger New York publications, and Italian-American media

Pitching to queer/lesbian, feminist, Italian-American, immigration, identity focused...


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ISBN 9781771839655
PRICE $17.95 (USD)
PAGES 100

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