All That Lies Between Us

Maria Mazziotti Gillan

Author: Maria Mazziotti Gillan | ISBN: 1550712616 : 9781550712612 | Format: Paperback | Size: 127 x 213mm | Pages: 87 | Weight: .12 Kg.
Published: Guernica Editions – March 2007 | Availability: In Print | Subjects: Works by individual poets: from c1900-

Here are presented a selection of poems

where we find the geography of the heart’s home — not a physical but rather an emotional centre around which she constructs the story of her life. Her world is populated by memories of growing up in the 50s, her courtship and long marriage, husband’s illness, and children. But at the centre is the woman she has become who struggles to deal with the complexities of love and the difficulties of achieving compassion and tenderness in the face of adversity. Brave, honest, beautiful, these poems help us to understand what it means to be human.

Maria Mazziotti Gillan

is the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Binghamton University-the State University of New York where she teaches poetry. She is the founder and the Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College. She has published : seven books of poetry, including The Weather of Old Seasons (Cross-Cultural Communications), Where I Come From and Things My Mother Told Me (Guernica). She is co-editor with her daughter Jennifer of three anthologies published by Penguin/Putnam: Unsettling America, Identity Lessons, and Growing Up Ethnic In America and is the editor of The Paterson Literary Review. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Poetry Ireland, The New York Times, Connecticut Review, and Rattle, among other journals and anthologies. She has won the Fearing Houghton Award(2001), the May Sarton Award from the Poetry Club of New England, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship for the Virginia Center for the Arts, and two New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowships in Poetry. Her book, Italian Women in Black Dresses, was published in 2002 by Guernica Press: Toronto, Canada.

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