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Ex Voto

Ex Voto( )
Author: Mayes, Frances
ISBN:978-0-918786-47-0
Publication Date:Jan 1995
Publisher:Lost Roads Publishers
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $12.00
Book Description:

Poetry. "The bell-like musicality of these poems belies their grim insistence: we live in a furnace. We consume and are consumed"-San Francisco Chronicle. "Mayes has an urgent interest in the ways past and present converge. she writes with terse magic"--The Los Angeles Times.

Book Details
Pages:66
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Book Weight:0.375 Pounds
Author Biography
Mayes, Frances (Author)
A native of Georgia, Frances Mayes received a B.A. from the University of Florida and an M.A. from San Francisco State University. She is a creative writing professor at San Francisco State University.

Mayes' memoir "Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy," about buying and restoring an abandoned villa in Cortona, was a national best seller in 1996. It became the basis of a feature film of the same name in 2003 starring Diane Lane.

In addition her travel writing, Frances Mayes is the author of six books of poetry and is a respected essayist and gourmet cook. Frances' title Under Magnolia is a 2015 New York Times bestseller.

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