Dorothy Barresi

Dorothy Barresi (born November 13, 1957 Buffalo, New York) is an American poet.

Dorothy Barresi
Occupation Poet
Language English
Nationality American
Education MFA, MA
Alma mater Univ. of Akron; Univ. of Pittsburgh; Univ. of Massachusetts
Period Contemporary
Genre Poetry
Notable awards Barnard New Women Poet Prize, Pushcart Prize, American Book Award, NEA Fellowship
Spouse Phil Matero
Children Dante and Andrew

Life

She was raised in Akron, Ohio. She teaches in the English Department at California State University at Northridge[1]

Her work has appeared in Antioch Review,[2] AGNI,[3] Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, Indiana Review,[4] Kenyon Review, Mid-American Review,[5] Parnassus, POETRY, Pool,[6] Ploughshares,[7] Virginia Quarterly Review, Triquarterly and Southern Review.[8]

She has served often as a judge for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry.

She is married to Phil Matero, and they have sons Andrew and Dante. They live in the San Fernando Valley.[9]

Education

Awards

Works

  • "How It Comes". Ploughshares. Winter 1986. Archived from the original on 17 July 2002.
  • "The Hole in the Ceiling". Ploughshares. Winter 1986. Archived from the original on 17 July 2002.
  • "Poem for the Thirty-Fifth Anniversary of Valium". Virginia Quarterly Review. Winter 2002. Retrieved June 22, 2015.
  • "Something in the House Was" (PDF). West Branch 62. 2008. Retrieved June 22, 2015.
  • "Stereotype" (PDF). West Branch 62. 2008. Retrieved June 22, 2015.
  • "The Garbage Keepers". Rattle. September 21, 2013. Retrieved September 23, 2015.
  • "Head Lice Circus: Shock and Awe". Redheaded Stepchild. Retrieved September 23, 2015.
  • "My Powers". Redheaded Stepchild. Retrieved September 23, 2015.

Poetry

  • American Fanatics. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-8229-6079-9.
  • Rouge Pulp. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-8229-5789-8.
  • Mother, My Porous China. Laguna Beach: The Inevitable Press. 1998. ISBN 978-1-891281-10-5. (chapbook)
  • Post-Rapture Diner. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1996. ISBN 978-0-8229-3896-5.
  • All of the Above. Boston: Beacon Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-8070-6815-1.
  • The Judas Clock. Blythewood: Devil's Millhopper Press. 1986.
  • Re-crossing the Equator. University of Massachusetts Amherst. 1985.

Anthologies

  • Louise DeSalvo, Edvige Giunta, eds. (2003). "Poem". The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture. Feminist Press. ISBN 978-1-55861-453-6.
  • Jim Elledge, Susan Swartwout, eds. (1999). "When I think of America Sometimes (I Think of Ralph Kramdem)". Real things: an anthology of popular culture in American poetry. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-21229-0.
  • Maggie Anderson; Dorothy Barresi; Quan Barry; Jan Beatty; Robin Becker; Richard Blanco; Christopher Bursk; Anthony Butts; Lorna Dee Cervantes (2007). Ochester, ed. American Poetry Now: Pitt Poetry Series Anthology. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-5964-9.
  • Pamela Gemin, Paula Sergi, eds. (1999). Boomer girls: poems by women from the baby boom generation. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-0-87745-687-2.

Interviews

  • “Showcased Writer: Dorothy Barresi” "Silk Road". February 25, 2015. Retrieved September 23, 2015.

Reviews

Much contemporary poetry fits into one of the many aesthetic categories that lie between the polar opposites of the radically "experimental" poem and the "traditional," often formal, poem. Dorothy Barresi’s work, however, is singular in its resistance, better yet, rejection, of current poetic camps. Part Sylvia Plath, part John Donne, Barresi handles both surprise and expectation with deftness, displaying uncommon verbal ingenuity and intelligence of investigation. Her third book, Rouge Pulp, spins poems of startling metaphysical image shot through with slang and pop culture. Her narrators are bold, swaggering through the poems as if to say, if we’re all intersections of discourses nowadays, then their job is to speak those multiple voices as articulately as possible.[10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Dorothy Barresi | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers". pw.org. Retrieved 2014-12-03.
  2. ↑ Kingsley, J.D. (2003). The Antioch Review. 61. Antioch Review, Incorporated. ISSN 0003-5769. Retrieved 2014-12-03.
  3. ↑ "AGNI Online: Author Dorothy Barresi". web.bu.edu. Retrieved 2014-12-03.
  4. ↑ Indiana Review. 25. Indiana University Board of Trustees. 2003. ISSN 0738-386X. Retrieved 2014-12-03.
  5. ↑ Bowling Green State University. Dept. of English; Bowling Green State University. Creative Writing Program (1997). Mid-American Review. 18. Popular Press. ISSN 0747-8895. Retrieved 2014-12-03.
  6. ↑ "POOL". poolpoetry.com. Retrieved 2014-12-03.
  7. ↑ "Show Article". pshares.org. Retrieved 2014-12-03.
  8. ↑ Southern Poetry Review. 1986. ISSN 0038-447X. Retrieved 2014-12-03.
  9. ↑ Archived November 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
  10. ↑ Archived July 6, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.

Source: Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2002. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000143831.

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