Savannah Schroll Guz
Savannah Schroll Guz holds a Master's Degree from the University of Pittsburgh. In 1997-1998, she was a Fulbright Scholar and worked as a correspondence translator for Bavaria's Prince von Hohenzollern.
Currently, she is a regular contributor to Library Journal, where she writes a monthly column on newly released reference guides. Previously, her essays, reviews, and cultural criticism have appeared in Sculpture, The European Journal of Cultural Studies, Modernism/Modernity, Popmatters, and Pittsburgh City Paper. She is a lecturer in English at West Virginia Northern Community College and co-founder of Pittsburgh's The New Yinzer Presents Reading Series.
Savannah is author of the short story collection, The Famous & The Anonymous (2004) and editor of the theme-based fiction anthology, Consumed: Women on Excess (2005). She has been nominated for a Pushcart and a Storysouth Million Writers Award. A new collection of fiction, American Soma, was released by Oregon-based So New Publishing in 2009.
Latest Articles
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Understanding Metaphor in Maya Angelou's "Men"
Angelou's free verse poem, filled with visceral imagery, warns of men's charm, women's desire, and the danger of succumbing to both.
Jan 31, 2011
- Savannah Schroll Guz
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Anne Sexton's "Cinderella": The Biggest Fairytale of All
In this 10-stanza poem, Sexton reveals her disdain for unrealistic expectations set by fairytales.
Jan 29, 2011
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Sylvia Plath's Lady Lazarus: Confessional Poetry
This work is an example of confessional poetry and reveals Plath's repeated and brazen attempts at self annihilation.
Jan 27, 2011
- Savannah Schroll Guz
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Dickinson's Tell all the Truth: Fact's Painful Illumination
This 8-line poem deals with, on a metaphorical level, the painful shock brought by truth and may relate directly to the poet's own expectations.
Jan 26, 2011
- Savannah Schroll Guz
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Dickinson's The Soul Selects her Own Society: Choosing Seclusion
This three-stanza poem, composed around 1862, is arguably autobiographical, revealing Dickinson's desire for privacy and preference for quiet seclusion.
Jan 25, 2011
- Savannah Schroll Guz
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Printmaker Naoko Matsubara
Canadian Printmaker Naoko Matsubara came of age during Modernism's zenith and employs the iconic principles of abstraction in her current oeuvre.
Apr 13, 2009
- Savannah Schroll Guz
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Understanding Emily Dickinson's Wild Nights
Written around 1861, this more brazen example of Dickinson's verse has incited debate over its subject since its publication in the early 1890s.
Mar 2, 2009
- Savannah Schroll Guz
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Funerary Symbols in A Good Man is Hard to Find
Published in 1955, O'Connor's short story is studded with symbolic clues that foreshadow its grisly ending.
Feb 27, 2009
- Savannah Schroll Guz
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Salter's Welcome to Hiroshima
Mary Jo Salter's 1984 poem uses strategically chosen adjectives and nouns to reveal the country's nearly invisible historical and economic divide.
Feb 26, 2009
- Savannah Schroll Guz
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Dickinson's After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling
In this c.1862 poem, Dickinson uses metaphors to communicate the physiological effects of ebbing emotion.
Feb 24, 2009
- Savannah Schroll Guz
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