{"product_id":"the-girls-in-the-chartreuse-jackets-9780991152322","title":"The Girls in the Chartreuse Jackets","description":"The Girls in the Chartreuse Jackets combines Maria Mazziotti Gillan's unique gifts as a visual artist with her already internationally known and prize winning poetry. Gillan's imagination, whimsical sense of line and vibrant use of colors shine forth through this beautiful picture book in a manner that both compliments and contrasts with the wonderful poems. While the poetry offers moving narratives of people and events taken directly from Gillan's life, the paintings are the flip side of that record--deeply joyous, even gleeful depictions of the artist's rich, sometimes dream like inner world. Readers of her poetry have long known Gillan as a fearless witness to the challenges of class, gender and ethnicity. Her eyes have always been wide open to the sometimes difficult truths of her world. But in The Girl with The Chartreuse Jackets Maria Mazziotti Gillan has shown that her eyes are equally open to whimsy and to the dance of the imagination. This is a mature poet who has come full circle to meet a brilliant child\/artist. The Girls in The Chartreuse Jackets is an essential book for anyone who wants to know the full range of Maria Mazziotti Gillan's--both as poet and as artist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maria Mazziotti Gillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Redux Consortium\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/05\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.19d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780991152322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaria Mazziotti Gillan is a recipient of the 2011 Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets \u0026amp; Writers, and the 2008 American Book Award for her book, All That Lies Between Us (Guernica Editions). She is the Founder\/Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, NJ, and editor of the Paterson Literary Review. She is also Director of the Creative Writing Program and Professor of Poetry at Binghamton University-SUNY. She has published sixteen books, including What We Pass On: Collected Poems 1980-2009 (Guernica Editions), THE PLACE I CALL HOME (NYQ Books, 2012), THE SILENCE IN AN EMPTY HOUSE (NYQ Books, 2013) and Writing Poetry to Save Your Life: How to Find the Courage to Tell Your Stories (MiroLand, Guernica). With her daughter, Jennifer, she is co-editor of four anthologies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Redux Consortium","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40536456003699,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":25.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_8360b137-c3c3-493f-b046-3cbc9d2cc742.jpg?v=1666617076","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-girls-in-the-chartreuse-jackets-9780991152322","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}