Background
A prolific poet, novelist, and playwright, Melfi was born in Casacalenda, a small mountain town south of Rome in 1951.
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Stages: Selected Poems (Essential Poets 77)
(Poetry. Mary Melfi's work appears unclassifiable. There a...)
Poetry. Mary Melfi's work appears unclassifiable. There are surrealist fireworks, gnostic philosophizing, black and white humor, an absurdist appreciation of the process of existence. Hers is not one voice, but rather a number of voices organized in a modern fugue: a counterpoint to its own cantus firmus. Swordfishes, swordsmen too, are equipped / to get along in life / but I'm equipped to be a dancer on the stars. / Your love is my equipment. (Sword Dances).
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A Bride In Three Acts (Essential Poets Series 17)
(A collection of poems that reads like a play.)
A collection of poems that reads like a play.
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A Queen Is Holding A Mummified Cat (Essential Poets Series 8)
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Queen is Holding a Mummified Cat (By: Mary Melfi) published: December, 1982
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Bride in Three Acts (By: Mary Melfi) published: December, 1983
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Mary Melfi
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At the age of six, she immigrated with her family to Montreal, Quebec where she attended the local English schools.
Career
She received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Concordia University and a Masters of Library Science from McGill University. Since completing her studies in 1977 she has published over a dozen books of critically acclaimed poetry and prose. Her first novel, Infertility Rites, was published by Guernica Editions in 1991.
lieutenant was later translated into French and Italian.
Also a playwright, Mary Melfi"s works for the theater have been workshopped in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. Noted for her black humour, wry wit and imaginative style critics have suggested that this author manages "not only to make us laugh, but also think." In-depth reviews of her writings can be found in William Anselmi"s book entitled: Mary Melfi, Essays on her Work (Guernica Editions, 2007).
To complement the book, Melfi has created a website in which she has compiled thousands of photos of peasant life in turn of the century Italy ().
Works
book
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A Bride In Three Acts (Essential Poets Series 17)
(A collection of poems that reads like a play.)
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Stages: Selected Poems (Essential Poets 77)
(Poetry. Mary Melfi's work appears unclassifiable. There a...)
- A Dialogue With Masks
- A Queen Is Holding A Mummified Cat (Essential Poets Series 8)
- Queen is Holding a Mummified Cat (By: Mary Melfi) published: December, 1982
- Bride in Three Acts (By: Mary Melfi) published: December, 1983
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A Bride In Three Acts (Essential Poets Series 17)
