In other works Mayes writes about landscapes far removed from the South, sometimes fusing the two seemingly disparate worlds. Many of her poems explore the rich, complex landscape of her childhood home in south Georgia, a hierarchical world where class, race, and gender determine roles in small-town life. Mayes published six books of poetry from 1977 to 1995: Climbing Aconcagua (1977), Sunday in Another Country (1977), After Such Pleasures (1979), The Arts of Fire (1982), Hours (1984), and Ex Voto (1995). She married her second husband, poet Ed Kleinschmidt in 1998. She taught creative writing at San Francisco State University until 2001. from San Francisco State University in 1975. from the University of Florida and her M.A. She attended Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Virginia and obtained her B.A. Mayes was born in Fitzgerald to Garbert and Frankye Davis Mayes. Frances Mayes has achieved wide recognition for two best-selling books about her life and her second home in Italy: Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy and Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy.
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