Daniela Gioseffi
Retired Professor/Author/Poet
English Department, College of the School of Visual Arts, New York.
Long Island University, New York University's Publishing Institute,
City University of New York: Brooklyn College.

Daniela Gioseffi is an American Book Award winning author of 12 books of prose & poetry, & a retired professor of American & world literature. She was a featured scholar on a documentary devoted to the poetry of Emily Dickinson produced by Pacifica Radio, 1978, and is currently completing a historical novel on Dickinson. Her publications include Women on War: International Writings (The Feminist Press, CUNY, 2003 and On Prejudice: A Global Perspective (Anchor/Doubleday, 1993). Her latest book of poems is the bilingual Blood Autumn/Autunno di sangue (VIA Folios/Bordighera Press: The Calandra Institute: The City University of New York, 2007.) She is winner of the John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry, 2007, and The New York State OSIA Literary Award, 2008, as well as two grant awards in poetry from The New York State Council for the Arts.

Publications

WILD NIGHTS, WILD NIGHTS, The Story of Emily Dickinson's "Master Figure;" Neighbor and Friend and Bridegroom
a novel
by Daniela Gioseffi

with a NON-fiction Afterword:
Emily Dickinson: Lover of Science and Scientist in Dark Days of the Republic.  (c) 2010: Plain View Press, Austin, Texas: www.plainviewpress.net

Emily Dickinson: Lover of Science and Scientist in Dark Days of the Republic: Undoing the Mythology of The Iconic Poet's Life with a Selected Bibliography: THE CHELSEA LITERARY REVIEW Number 81: Spring 2006. http://www.chelseamag.org/81/

Emily Dickinson and Me: A Personal Essay: WILD NIGHTS, WILD NIGHTS; Undoing the Mythology of the Life of the Poet: An Afterword to a Biographical Novel: online at SUGAR MULE: A Literary E-zine #23: http://www.sugarmule.com/23-2.htm/ and http://www.sugarmule.com/23frame.htm/

WOMEN ON WAR: INTERNATIONAL WRITINGS, Feminist Press, CUNY: NY. 2003

ON PREJUDICE: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE, Anchor/Doubleday: NY. 1993

Hundreds of reviews and interviews of contemporary American poets in American Book Review, VIA, The Hungry Mind Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Small Press Review, Poet Lore, The Hayden's Ferry Review, The Cortland Review, BigCityLit, Barrow Street Review, The New York Times, Library Journal, Book List.

Hundreds of poems of my own in The Paris Review, Antaeus, The Nation, Prairie Schooner, Poetry East, Journal of the Poetry Society of America, Barrow Street Review, Chelsea, Choice.

POETRY: EGGS in the LAKE, BOA Editions. Rochester: NY. 1979 

WORD WOUNDS & WATER FLOWERS, 1995,

GOING ON, VIA FOLIOS @ PURDUE U: West Lafayette, IN. 2000

SYMBIOSIS: Rattapallax Press, New York, 2002. plus novels and stories from Doubleday, Dell, New English Library, Oxford University Press, Harper Collins, etc.

Work in Progress

Untitled. Emily Dickinson and Rebellion Against Puritan Revivalism

Research Interests

Emily Dickinson and the Transcendental Movement in American Literature
Emily Dickinson and Emerson
Emily Dickinson and Hawthorne
Emily Dickinson and Thoreau: Comparative Studies
Emily Dickinson on the Fringe of the Brahmins

 

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