The work of one of the leaders of the multicultural turn in North American poetry is examined in this literary critique. In these essays, Tony Vallone explicitly examines the Italian-Americanness of Maria Mazziotti Gillan's prosody and childhood, while Joe Weil attempts to place her work in relation to a number of schools of American poetics, political ideologies, and autobiography. Rachel Guido DeVries articulates the Italian-American feminist ingredients of Gillan's poems, and editor Sean Thomas Dougherty reads her work through contemporary theories of whiteness, class formation, and resistance. In a personal yet critical essay, daughter Jennifer Gillan exhumes the role of kin and kinship networks in her mother's poetry.
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Sean Thomas Dougherty teaches creative writing at Penn State–Erie and is the author of Nightshift Belonging to Lorca and Sunset by the Chain-Link Fence. He lives in Erie, Pennsylvania.
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As someone who has been greatly influenced by Maria Mazziotti Gillan's poetry and prose, I feel this book didn't go far enough explaining the person behind the poet.Only rarely do they mention or interview colleagues for their take on Mazziotti Gillan. In other words, there is little, if any, dissension about the poet or her person. This collection should have included at least one 'personality profile' to pull us away from these repetitive essays. Please, someone show us what a typical day is like for this wife, professor, lecturer, organizer and poet. Essays On Her Works is strictly for her most devoted fans.
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