[New-Poetry] The lyric I

[Anny Ballardini]

Here's an exercise I found on the net:
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/bio-poem.html
try also this link, it might give you some ideas:
http://books.google.it/books?ct=result&hl=en&q=persona+poetry&btnG=Search+Books



On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>wrote:

> TheOldMole wrote:
>
>> I guess I'm going to have to dig down to my own resources, and put
>> together a packet of some sort. That, unfortunately, always turns out to be
>> the best way, because if I flagellate myself enough, I'm generally the best
>> judge of what I need.
>>
>> I have to give a one-day workshop on "persona," and I'm tossing around
>> trying to figure out what I've gotten myself into, and what I'm going to do.
>>
> "Persona" always makes me think of Yeats's Crazy Jane, Hughes's Crow and
> Berryman's Henry.  I don't connect persona to confessionalism of any
> so-called "lyric I," though.  Keats wrote lyrical I poems without confessing
> anything, for just one instance. . . .
>
> --Bob G.
>
>
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