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Selections from Dreamweavers: The Woman Intellectual according to Marjorie Evasco

Shirley O. Lua

Discipline: Literature

 

Abstract:

The Italian writer Italo Calvino proposes that the Greek legend about Perseus cutting off the head of Medusa with the use of a mirror can be viewed as an allegory of the relationship between the poet and his/her world. Like Perseus, a poet envisions the world indirectly and differently. Marjorie Evasco is an intellectual Perseus. Holding up the shiny shield, she designs a new dream and threads words together to create an intricate mat of verses.