After Confession Poetry as Autobiography

Name: After Confession Poetry as Autobiography
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ISBN: 9781555973551

ISBN-10: 1555973558

ISBN-13: 9781555973551

Edition: 2001

Authors: Kate Sontag, David Graham

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In an age of memoir, the distinction between fiction and nonfiction has become increasingly blurred, sparking controversy among writers and readers alike. But what about the autobiographical impulse in poetry? In this groundbreaking collection, some of our best contemporary poets contemplate the legacy of the confessional poets such as Plath, Sexton, and Lowell. They also tackle such fiery topics as the nature of authorial responsibility in telling the truth, the focus on issues of self in relation to others and to the natural world, the very essence of craft as transformation, and the role female poets have played in breaking the code of silence. Rich in opinion and theory, After…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Publication date: 9/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Take the I Out



Introduction: Containing Multitudes




Staying News: Critical and Historical Perspectives


Personal and Impersonal



Staying News: A Defense of the Lyric



Making a Case; or, "Where Are You Coming From?"



Stories about the Self (I and II)



The Self within the Circle



My Grandfather's Tackle Box: The Limitations of Memory-Driven Poetry




Our Better Halves: Autobiographical Musings


Voluminous Underwear; or, Why I Write Self-Portraits



Autobiography and Archetype



Family Talk: Confessional Poet? Not Me



My Better Half



Borges and I



The First Person in the Twenty-First Century



Coherent Decentering: Toward a New Model of the Poetic Self



The Autobiographical "I": An Archive of Metaphor, Imagery, and Innuendo




Degrees of Fidelity: Ethical and Aesthetic Considerations


Mother, May I?: Writing with Love



Lying for the Sake of Making Poems



Self-Pity



Degrees of Fidelity



The Glass Anvil: "The Lies of an Autobiographer"



The Contemporary Poet and the Natural World



Blunt Instrument: A Zuihitsu




Codes of Silence: Women and Autobiography


Bless Me, Sisters



The Forbidden



Breaking the Code of Silence: Ideology and Women's Confessional Poetry



The Voices We Carry



Women and Poetry: Some Notes



Translating Self: Stealing from Wang Wei, Kowtowing to Hughes, Hooking Up with Keats, Undone by Donne



Beyond Confession: The Poetics of Postmodern Witness



In Those Years