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Books by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
  | | Paterson Light and Shadow by Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Mark Hillringhouse Hardcover, 92 Pages, Published 2017 by Serving House Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9977797-5-2, ISBN: 0-9977797-5-6 "Paterson Light and Shadow tells the stories in poetry and photography of Paterson, New Jersey, from one of the most gifted poets, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, and fine art photographer Mark Hillringhouse, who together have spent a lifetime living, growing up and working in and around one of America's most important historic industrial cities. In her signature style, Gillan combines sublime moments with gritty detail when she writes about gro ..." |
 | | What Blooms in Winter(1st Edition) by Maria Mazziotti Gillan Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2016 by Nyq Books ISBN-13: 978-1-63045-011-3, ISBN: 1-63045-011-1 "In WHAT BLOOMS IN WINTER, Maria Mazziotti Gillan finds cause to celebrate the clarity and comfort of people and times past. This book is a praise song for all that is human and that survives despite grief and loss. It is one woman's story of an immigrant girl growing up in the 1950s in Paterson, NJ, and seeing over a distance of so many years all that she was given to carry into her life as a woman--wife, mother, daughter, grandmother, ..." |
 | | The Silence in an Empty House(1st Edition) by Maria Mazziotti Gillan Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2013 by Nyq Books ISBN-13: 978-1-935520-89-4, ISBN: 1-935520-89-X "Poetry. In THE SILENCE OF AN EMPTY HOUSE, Maria Mazziotti Gillan comes to the limit of human experience, stares death in the face, and struggles to keep moving. These moments she faces and speaks of so clearly are unavoidable, and the long illness and death of her husband, Dennis, is her personal version of the fundamental struggle we all face. THE SILENCE OF AN EMPTY HOUSE speaks of forgiveness, guilt and grace. With courage and a stub ..." |
 | | Writing Poetry To Save Your Life(1st Edition) How To Find The Courage To Tell Your Stories (MiroLand Imprint) by Maria Mazziotti Gillan Paperback, 203 Pages, Published 2013 by Miroland ISBN-13: 978-1-55071-747-1, ISBN: 1-55071-747-2 "What I hope to accomplish in this book is to give writing prompts that will help you to get past all the outside influences that keep you from believing in yourself and in your ability to write. In order to write, you need to get rid of notions about language, poetic form, and esoteric subject matter ? all the things that the poetry police have told you are essential if you are to write. I wanted to start from a different place, a place ..." |
 | | The Place I Call Home by Maria Mazziotti Gillan Paperback, 84 Pages, Published 2012 by Nyq Books ISBN-13: 978-1-935520-67-2, ISBN: 1-935520-67-9 "Poetry. The place that Maria Mazziotti Gillan calls home is a universal haven built of enduring memories and peopled by loving family. In Gillan's newest book of poetry, THE PLACE I CALL HOME, we share her complex emotions of an immigrant childhood in Paterson, New Jersey, in the 1950s, her long marriage, her husband's devastating illness, and her subsequent widowhood. Yet, we also share the sheltering family in which she grew up, the d ..." |
 | | Identity Lessons Contemporary Writing About Learning to Be American by Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Jennifer Gillan Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 1999 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-027167-6, ISBN: 0-14-027167-8 "In stories and poems that explore how our society shapes us, Identity Lessons features a wide array of ethnic perspectives on growing up in America. Leading the reader into the living-rooms, boardrooms, classrooms, and movie houses of America, distinguished writers from all points of the American ethnic landscape shed light on the space between conformity and difference, and examine the struggle between the need to belong and the pull ..." |
 | | Growing Up Ethnic in America Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American by Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Jennifer Gillan Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 1999 by Penguin Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-14-028063-0, ISBN: 0-14-028063-4 "Stories navigating the commplicated terrain of race in America, from acclaimed writers like Toni Morrison, E.L. Doctorow, Sandra Cisneros, Sherman Alexie, and Amy TanThe editors who brought us Unsettling America and Identity Lessons have compiled a short-story anthology that focuses on themes of racial and ethnic assimilation. With humor, passion, and grace, the contributors lay bare poignant attempts at conformity and the alienation so ..." |
 | | Unsettling America(9th Edition) An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry by Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Jennifer Gillan, Dwight Okita Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 1994 by Penguin Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-14-023778-8, ISBN: 0-14-023778-X "A multicultural array of poets explore what it is means to be American This powerful and moving collection of poems stretches across the boundaries of skin color, language, ethnicity, and religion to give voice to the lives and experiences of ethnic Americans. With extraordinary honesty, dignity, and insight, these poems address common themes of assimilation, communication, and self-perception. In recording everyday life in our many Am ..." |
 | | When the Stars Were Still Visible (Paperback or Softback) by Maria Mazziotti Gillan Paperback, 90 Pages, Published 2021 by Stephen F. Austin University Pre ISBN-13: 978-1-62288-913-6, ISBN: 1-62288-913-4 "In When the Stars Were Still Visible, Maria Mazziotti Gillan gives us the truth, unedited and directly from the heart. This gorgeously elegiac collection creates an arc that articulates her understanding of aging and gaining wisdom." |
 | | The Girls in the Chartreuse Jackets by Maria Mazziotti Gillan Paperback, 74 Pages, Published 2014 by Redux Consortium ISBN-13: 978-0-9911523-2-2, ISBN: 0-9911523-2-8 "The Girls in the Chartreuse Jackets combines Maria Mazziotti Gillan's unique gifts as a visual artist with her already internationally known and prize winning poetry. Gillan’s imagination, whimsical sense of line and vibrant use of colors shine forth through this beautiful picture book in a manner that both compliments and contrasts with the wonderful poems. While the poetry offers moving narratives of people and events taken directly f ..." |
 | | Italian Women In Black Dresses (Essential Poets Series 116) by Maria Mazziotti Gillan Paperback, 116 Pages, Published 2002 by Guernica Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-55071-156-1, ISBN: 1-55071-156-3 ""Written to read like a memoir, this collection of poetry details the life of a family across generations and provides a moving and haunting portrait of the Italian mother who is the center around which this family revolves. But this is much more than a story about ethnicity; it transcends any single identity and explores instead the many ways in which people learn to identify themselves."" |
 | | Ancestors' Song (VIA Folios) by Maria Mazziotti Gillan Paperback, 116 Pages, Published 2013 by Bordighera Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59954-063-4, ISBN: 1-59954-063-0 "Poetry. Italian American Studies. Maria Mazziotti Gillan's Ancestors' Song takes the reader on a journey, one in which she recognizes deep within herself "the voices of the women who came before," their words blending together, forming, as she tells the reader, "the beat I move to." This beat is very much a part of the narrative she weaves in her characteristically honest, intimate, and humorous voice. This beat is true, hard working, s ..." |
 | | Things My Mother Told Me(1st Edition) (Essential Poets Series 95) by Maria Mazziotti Gillan Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 1999 by Guernica Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-55071-021-2, ISBN: 1-55071-021-4 "This book is luminous, feisty, heart breaking, and fiercely honest, often all in the space of a single poem. Her voice has the vigour and industrial strength grit of Grace Paley's, and there is genuine wisdom here, an intelligence born of direct experience. These poems are a breath of fresh air in contrast to the fetid self obsession of so much contemporary verse... a real pleasure...a must read for anyone who has ever experienced the d ..." |
 | | All That Lies Between Us (Essential Poets Series) by Maria Mazziotti Gillan Paperback, 90 Pages, Published 2007 by Guernica Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-55071-261-2, ISBN: 1-55071-261-6 "Constructed in the form of a memoir, these poems take on an emotional tone as the author details the story of her life. The collection is populated by her memories of childhood, courtships and marriage, family illness, children, and grandchildren. At its core is a woman struggling to deal with all the complexities of love and the difficulties of achieving compassion and tenderness in the face of adversity. Brave, honest, and beautiful, ..." |
 | | Where I Come From(2nd Edition) (Essential Poets Series 64) by Maria Mazziotti Gillan Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 1995 by Guernica Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-55071-005-2, ISBN: 1-55071-005-2 "Reading. Susan. Toth's. Blooming. Wind pointers twirl through past summers in the Seventeenth Street garden, turned earth, blacker than coal in the cellar, smell of earth, tart and cool as the lemonade we made in a big glass pitcher, lemon ..." |
 | | What We Pass On Collected Poems: 1980-2009 (Essential Poets Series) by Maria Mazziotti Gillan Paperback, 440 Pages, Published 2010 by Guernica Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-55071-304-6, ISBN: 1-55071-304-3 "In WHAT WE PASS ON: COLLECTED POEMS: 1980-2009, Maria Mazziotti Gillan weaves a tapestry of one woman's life wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, grand-daughter, Italian American. Reading these poems in one volume makes us acutely aware of how memory is layered, each new poem adding another detail, another color, another perspective so that we watch as the poet and the people around her change. With increasing clarity and honesty, Gilla ..." |
 | | The American Voice in Poetry The Legacy of Whitman, Williams, and Ginsberg. The celebration of the 30th anniversary of The Poetry Center by Maria Mazziotti Gillan Paperback, 87 Pages, Published 2010 by The Poetry Center Passaic County Community College ISBN-13: 978-0-9621495-9-7, ISBN: 0-9621495-9-4 "Anthology edited by maria Mazziotti Gillan" |
 | | Growing Up Ethnic in America Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American by Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Jennifer Gillan 400 Pages, Published 1999 by Penguin ISBN-13: 978-1-101-64020-3, ISBN: 1-101-64020-0 "We'd sing “The StarSpangled Banner,” followed by “America the Beautiful”; then, if Miss Stanforth was feeling particularly energetic, “The Street I Live On.” Then we'd all stand up, clap our right arm over our chest diagonally, and recite the Pledge of Allegiance. I enjoyed doing all this the first few times, but eventually, I could sing the songs and do the Pledge in my sleep. I started thinking, involuntarily, about the Elbow Gre ..." |
 | | Unsettling America An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry by Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Jennifer Gillan 432 Pages, Published 1994 by Penguin ISBN-13: 978-1-101-57389-1, ISBN: 1-101-57389-9 "Notes for a Poem on Being Asian American As a child, I was a fussy eater and I would separate the yolk from the egg white as I now try to sort out what is Asian in me from what is American— the east from the west, the dreamer from the dream. But countries are not like eggs—except in the fragileness ... And it seems as if he's asking for my forgiveness. It's 1983, there's a sale on Marimekko sheets at the Crate & Barrel, it's a beau ..." |
 | | Weather of Old Seasons Mini Book No. 8 by Maria Mazziotti Gillan Paperback, 47 Pages, Published 1993 by Cross-Cultural Communications, Merrick, Ny ISBN-13: 978-0-89304-438-1, ISBN: 0-89304-438-5 |
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