la bella figura: the literary journal devoted to Italian-American women. Omerta... Basta! issue 1, Spring 1988 silence

San Francisco: LBF, 1988. Magazine. 36p., 5.5x8.5 inches, poetry, prose, review, contributor bios, digest-size journal in glossy white upright wraps. Back cover has sustained some long adhesion scars over the word "Basta", which remains legible; item is otherwise perfectly sound, clean and unmarked. One may not think of immigrant Italian-Americans as being subject to racist taunts and violence. The texts here will disabuse; children especially vulnerable, of course.