Mary di Michele
Mary di Michele (born August 6, 1949 in Lanciano ) is an Italian - Canadian writer , editor and lecturer .
Life and work
Di Michele was born in Lanciano, Italy in 1949. She lived in Belgium for two years before her family emigrated to Canada in 1955 and settled in Toronto .
In 1972 di Michele graduated from the University of Toronto with a BA in English Literature . She received her MA in English and creative writing from the University of Windsor in 1972 . In 1978 her first volume of poetry, Tree of August , was published, in which she focused on the Italian-Canadian world - as in several subsequent works. In 1980 she won 1st prize at the CBC Poetry Competition.
In the 1980s she freelanced for Toronto Life , Poetry Toronto, and the Toronto Star . In 1984 she edited the anthology Anything is Possible: A Selection of Eleven Women Poets . From 1985 to 1986 she was writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto. After a trip through Chile in 1987, during which she learned first hand about the political terror in Pinochet's dictatorship , she wrote her volume of poetry Luminous Emergencies. (1990).
Since 1990 she has been teaching creative writing at Concordia University in Montréal . Her first novel Under My Skin was published in 1994 . In her volume of poetry Debriefing the Rose (1998) di Michele deals with the poets Charles Baudelaire , Hart Crane , Rainer Maria Rilke and Wang Wei ; the third part of this book deals with the ancient poetess Sappho . As in many of her works, she clearly shows feminist positions.
In 2006 she founded the literature group Yoko's Dogs with Jan Conn, Susan Gillis and Jane Munro , which deals with Japanese forms of poetry - from which u. a. the common band Whisk: A Haikai no Renga Cycle (2013) emerged. In her collection of prose poems, The Flower of Youth (2011), di Michele depicts Pier Paolo Pasolini's adolescence and artistic development .
Works
- Poetry
- Tree of August. Three Trees Press, 1978, ISBN 0-88823-003-6 .
- Bread and Chocolate. Oberon Press, 1980, ISBN 0-88750-370-5 (omnibus edition with Marrying into the Family by Bronwen Wallace ).
- Mimosa and Other Poems. Mosaic Press, 1981, ISBN 0-88962-132-2 .
- Necessary sugar. Oberon Press, 1984, ISBN 0-88750-509-0 .
- Immune to Gravity. McClelland & Stewart, 1986, ISBN 0-7710-2823-7 .
- Luminous Emergencies. McClelland & Stewart, 1990, ISBN 0-7710-2824-5 .
- Stranger in You: Selected Poems and New. Oxford University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-19-541158-7 .
- Debriefing the Rose. Anansi, 1998, ISBN 0-88784-623-8 .
- The Flower of Youth: Pier Paolo Pasolini Poems. ECW Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-77041-048-0 .
- Lyric with Yoko's Dogs
- Whisk. Pedlar Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-897141-54-0 .
- Novels
- Under My Skin. Quarry Press, 1994, ISBN 1-55082-099-0 .
- Tenor of Love. Viking Canada, 2005, ISBN 0-670-04463-6 .
Prices
- 1980 CBC Poetry Competition
- 1982 DuMaurier Award for Poetry (Silver Medal)
- 1984 Air Canada Writing Award
- 1990 Toronto Arts Award
- 1996 ARC Confederation Poets Award
literature
- Anna Pia De Luca: Le Prime Poesie di Mary Di Michele. In: Silvana Serafin: Oltreoceano. Dialogues con la poesia: voci di donne dalle Americhe all'Australia. 3 (2009), pp. 75-85. (PDF file on forumeditrice.it)
- Joseph Pivato (Ed.): Mary di Michele: Essays on Her Works . Guernica, Toronto 2007, ISBN 978-1-55071-249-0 .
- ibid: Lisa Bonato: Voce Unica: Mary Di Michele. (2004) pp. 19-35. (online at athabascau.ca)
- Michael Morgan Holmes: Mary di Michele. In: Robert Lecker et al. (Ed.): Canadian Writers and Their Works: Poetry Series. (Fiction series. Volume 11). ECW Press, Toronto 1995, ISBN 1-55022-213-9 .
- Lorraine M. York: Home Thoughts or Abroad? A Rhetoric of Place in Modern and Postmodern Canadian Political Poetry. In: Essays on Canadian Writing. 51/52, 1993, pp. 321-339.
- Nathalie Cooke: Mary di Michele: On the Integrity of Speech and Silence. In: Canadian Poetry. 26, 1990. (online at athabascau.ca)
- Robert Billings: Contemporary Influences on the Poetry of Mary di Michele. In: Joseph Pivato: Contrasts. Comparative Essays on Italian-Canadian Writing . Guernica Editions, Montreal 1985, ISBN 0-919349-53-6 , pp. 121-152.
Web links
- Homepage of the author (English)
- Mary di Michele at the Department of English at Concordia University (English)
- Six of her poems on Canadian Poetry Online (English)
- Four of her poems in Jacket2 No. 34 (2007) (English and "franglish").
- Mary di Michele , entry in English-Canadian writers, Athabasca University , by Joseph Pivato (English); more links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b JKK: di Michele, Mary. In: Ian Hamilton, Jeremy Noel-Tod (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English. 2nd edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-964025-6 , p. 146.
- ↑ a b c Joseph Pivato: Mary Di Michele , from Canadian-writers, Athabasca University , accessed on September 5, 2015 (English).
- ^ Mary di Michele ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia .
- ↑ Mary DiMichele at: brocku.ca, accessed on September 5, 2015 (English).
- ↑ a b Mary di Michele at: hayne.net, accessed on September 5, 2015 (English).
- ^ Anita Hurwitz: Luminous emergencies by Mary Di Michele. In: Poetry Canada Review. 13/2 (1993) p. 26.
- ↑ Yoko's Dogs at: yokosdogs.com, accessed on September 5, 2015 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Di Michele, Mary |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | DiMichele, Mary; Michele, Mary di |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian-Canadian feminist writer, editor and lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lanciano |