Mary di Michele

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Mary di Michele
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Born (1949-08-06) 6 August 1949 (age 76)
Lanciano, Abruzzo, Italy
Occupation
  • Poet
  • author
NationalityItalian-Canadian
Education University of Toronto (BA)
University of Windsor (MA)
Website
hayne.net/dimichele/

Mary di Michele (born 6 August 1949) is an Italian-Canadian poet and author. [1] [2] She was a professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec where she taught creative writing until 2015. [3]

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Early life and education

di Michele was born in Lanciano, Italy. She immigrated to Toronto, Ontario with her family in 1955. She obtained an Honours B.A. in English Literature at the University of Toronto in 1972. Later, she completed an M.A. in English and creative writing at the University of Windsor in 1974.

Career

di Michele published her first book of poetry, Tree of August, in 1978. [4] She traveled to Chile in 1987 as part of a literary cultural exchange. [5] In 1990, she became a professor of English at Concordia University. [4]

By 1995 di Michele had written six volumes of poetry. That year she published her first novel, Under My Skin. [6] She continued to write and publish poetry, and in 2005 released a second novel, Tenor of Love. [7] [8]

In 2011 di Michele released The Flower of Youth: Pier Paolo Pasolini Poems which returns to the terror of WWII in Italy and the experiences of her family before she was born. It anticipates her next book of poetry on the post-war years, Bicycle Thieves in 2017. [9] [10]

In 2007 Guernica Editions published Mary di Michele: Essays on Her Works, edited by Joseph Pivato, which includes studies by ten literary critics and indicates the high regard for her literary production. In 2024 her works are held in more than 1400 libraries. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ Joseph Pivato. Mary Di Michele: Essays on Her Works . Guernica Editions; 2007. ISBN   978-1-55071-249-0. p. 206–.
  2. ↑ "Mary di Michele: on the Integrity of Speech and Silence". by Nathalie Cooke, University of Western Ontario
  3. ↑ Elaine Kalman Naves. Putting Down Roots: Montreal's Immigrant Writers . Véhicule Press; 1 January 1998. ISBN   978-1-55065-103-4. p. 41.
  4. 1 2 "Mary di Michele". The Canadian Encyclopedia
  5. ↑ Susan L. Rosenstreich. Encounters with Quebec: Emerging Perspectives on Quebecois Narrative Fiction . Global Academic Publishing; 1998. ISBN   978-1-883058-58-6. p. 165–.
  6. ↑ "Debriefing the Poet, An lnterview with Mary di Michele." ARC 34 (Spring 1995): 25-31. May 1995
  7. ↑ "Bicycle Thieves: An Interview with Mary di Michele". Prism Magazine, 7 July 2017. Nathaniel G. Moore
  8. ↑ David Skene-Melvin. Investigating Women: Female Detectives by Canadian Writers: An Eclectic Sampler . Dundurn; 1 December 1995. ISBN   978-1-4597-2690-1. p. 34–.
  9. ↑ "Reviews: Bicycle Thieves by Mary di Michele, Thing Is by Suzannah Showler". Quill and Quire, Jason Wiens
  10. ↑ "Poetry Review". Montreal Review of Books, by Gillian Sze, Summer 2017 issue
  11. ↑ "Mary de Michele", WorldCat.
  12. ↑ "Book Reviews", Toronto Star – Toronto, Ont. Oughton, John. 18 Aug 1990 M.6
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