Bøger af Michelle Reale

The haunting prose poems of Michelle Reale's The Legacy of the Sidelong Glance form a rare and intimate portrait of a complex, resilient, and essentially powerful woman betrayed by the politics of family and culture. Burned free of sentimentality, this collection pushes against the mindless stereotypes that stunt the mainstream image of Italian American women, and instead offers a fresh, honest portrayal of a life forged by oppression and survival. -Olivia Kate Cerrone, Italian-American novelist; recipient of Distinguished Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts Michelle Reale does not write with a pen, but with a crochet needle. Her words create a quilt laced with blood. The past is haunting, but there is no shame in excavating it for us to behold. All that is Italian swells with retrograde taste and melodramatic feel. The cadavers of yesteryear rise as Lazarus while Reale skillfully and painfully unearths her heavy legacy. These poems shine as polished fossils. -Alessandra Bava, author of Guerilla Blues, Edizioni Ensemble, 2012 Reale sweeps us up into the velocity of her headlong wind tunnel. In her prose poems we encounter striking images as truths spinning around us. We are taken in so close to the place where legacy and myth meet, but we never quite land. We breathe in her vortex. We lose sight of any sharp triangular edges, as the beginning and end points swirl away and we spiral among words. -Sonia Elisabetta di Placido, author of Exaltation in Cadmium Red, Guernica Editions

"How do you dress for a front/row seat at the suffering of another?" Michelle Reale's intimate poems answer this question with bold precision, witnessing the alcoholic with a starkness that recalls Fitzgerald's portrayal of his own crack-up. Reale's speaker meets "the wolf at the door," tosses him some raw meat, and dares him to dance the tarantella until he drops. -- Jessie Janeshek All These Things Were Real: Poems of Delirium Tremens, is a sonorous lament on the worst unholy nightmares - bringing the urgent intimacy of a mother's love for a sick and wayward child bravely into the public arena. She reveals the frailties of being alive, of loving and losing, rawly exposing anguish with a candid eloquence. -- Cynthia Atkins Reale's collection of poems takes readers on a lyric journey into the inexplicable parts of illness and a mother's fierce love. These poems make sense of the senseless, the ways that illness fractures our self and relationships, and turns who we thought we were into slivers of broken mirror that we walk across with bare feet. The poems work to make us whole again. -- Sandra L. Faulkner

While the profession has generated many books on information literacy, none to date have validated exactly why it is so difficult to teach. In her new book, Reale posits that examining and reflecting on the reality of those factors is what will enable practitioners to meet the challenge of their important mandate.

Poetry. Italian Studies. The poems in SEASON OF SUBTRACTION are at once effortlessly attainable, and at the same time surprisingly fresh and delightfully unexpected...If you listen carefully, you can hear Michelle say, Yes, you come too. SEASON OF SUBTRACTION is an extraordinary book.--John Stanizzi The prose poems that make up SEASON OF SUBTRACTION bask in the poetics of language and syntax; they are bricks paving a dream-village, both American and Old World...I am in awe of the space Michelle Messina Reale creates: its friction, its strength, its mournful insistence, and the speaker who 'pin[s] my father's heart to the wall and pray[s] a novena to lost souls...'--Jennifer Martelli SEASON OF SUBTRACTION is like Sicily's own citrus fruits--hybridized, yet native and emblematic; sweet and intricate, yet often bitter in places at the whim of life's turning. With its nuanced language, crafted metaphors, and raw honesty, Reale's work is a treat to be savored.--Chad Frame In SEASON OF SUBTRACTION, Michelle Reale entangles you in the language of ache and need, and the search for a lost relative who becomes a found love...You will gather so many pieces in this beautiful collection, and you will exit it feeling whole, knowing what was once lost is now home.--Kailey Tedesco

Embedded librarianship is "not one size fits all", yet many books on the subject treat it in a cold, objective manner that doesn't adequately communicate how becoming an embedded librarian actually works in the real world. Here, Reale shares her own university classroom experiences to offer a step-by-step primer for those contemplating the practice.