Things My Mother Told Me

Maria Mazziotti Gillan

Guernica Editions, Fall 1999

104 pages

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781550710212

ISBN10: 1550710214

English

$5.00 Canada, $5.00 US

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These poems are a breath of fresh air -- luminous, feisty, heart-breaking, and fiercely honest. Maria Mazziotti Gillan's voice has the vigor and industrial grit of Grace Paley's, and there is genuine wisdom here too -- an intelligence born of direct experience of the mother-daughter mysteries.

This is an intensely compelling poetry of all the human places we are given to live in.

Robert Creeley

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