[New-Poetry] Fables of the Self

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/08/DDVD12I1LF.DTL

Fables of the Self
Studies in Lyric Poetry
By Rosanna Warren
Norton; 343 pages; $27.95

As a literary critic, Rosanna Warren likes to be coy. Or so it seems from her "Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry," a book of essays that the author - also a classics scholar, translator and an award-winning poet - calls an "occult autobiography," although it reveals little about her. 


That's because "Fables" is intended to flout prevailing notions of the memoir - namely, the disclosure of gossipy details about the author's life. In the preface, Warren - who is the daughter of "All the King's Men" novelist Robert Penn Warren and his wife, novelist Eleanor Clark - teases readers by referring to her famous parents, but then she declines to give details to let us know them, or her, in any depth.

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