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Heather Treseler

Heather Treseler is the author of Parturition, which received the international chapbook prize from the Munster Literature Centre and the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize from the New England Poetry Club. She is an associate professor of English at Worcester State University.

Four Poems

Four Poems

by Heather Treseler | Thursday, December 09, 2021

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The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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