Nationality Chile Role Poet Name Mariela Griffor | Website www.marielagriffor.com Known for Poetry, Publisher Education New England College | |
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Born September 29, 1961 (age 62) ( 1961-09-29 ) Concepcion, Chile Occupation Poet, Translator, Diplomat Books Exiliana: Poems, Heartland, House | ||
Mariela griffor on censorship produced by aadl for the 50 state salute
Mariela Griffor (born September 29, 1961, Concepcion, Chile), is a poet, editor, publisher of Marick Press and diplomat. She is author of three poetry collections, Exiliana, House and most recently, The Psychiatrist (Eyewear Publishing, 2013), and has had her poems and translations published in many literary journals and magazines including Poetry International, Washington Square Review , Texas Poetry Review, and Éditions d'art Le Sabord, in anthologies including Poetry in Michigan / Michigan in Poetry, from New Issues Press. A variety of Griffor's poems has been translated into Italian, French, Chinese, Swedish, and Spanish. She has been nominated to the Griffin Poetry Prize, to the Whiting Awards and the PEN Beyond Margins Award.
Contents
- Mariela griffor on censorship produced by aadl for the 50 state salute
- Mariela griffor il rumore della pioggia nel michigan
- Early life
- Career
- Works
- Poetry
- Translation
- Editing
- References
Mariela griffor il rumore della pioggia nel michigan
Early life
Griffor was born in Concepcion, Chile. She attended the University of Santiago and the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. She left Chile for an involuntary exile in Sweden in 1985. Griffor holds a B.A in Journalism from Wayne State University and a M.F.A in Creative Writing from New England College. She and her American husband returned to the United States in 1998 with their two daughters. They live in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan.
Career
Griffor is co-founder of the institute for Creative Writers at Wayne State University and Publisher of Marick Press. Her work has appeared in Passages North, Cerise Press, Washington Square Review, Texas Poetry Review and many others. She is the author of Exiliana (Luna Publications) and House (Mayapple Press). Her latest publication are The Psychiatrist (Eyewear Publishing 2013 and Declassified, 2017) . She is honorary consul of Chile in Michigan.
Griffor writes about her homeland of Chile, and her immigrant experiences as an exile in both Sweden and the United States.
Works
Griffor, who is bilingual, is a rare exception among lyrical Chilean writers that publishes here [Chile] and in other places. In Resolana one notices an exceptional consistency, a coherence in contrast to the robust naturalism of our tradition and, above all, a profound cultural formation – without a doubt, immersed in the North American lyric, especially Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore – consolidated in hymns to the common and current, in the everyday, in the allusion to the flora and fauna that, without extending in manifest form, uses symbols and literary resources so that the verbal weight asserts itself to her readers. If one has to position Griffor within the recent history of Chilean poetry, her art is closest to poets such as Jorge Teillier, Delia Domínguez and the early Enrique Lihn.