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Experiments in Poetic Biography: Feminist Threads in Contemporary Long Form Poetry
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 39, Number 1, Winter 2016
- pp. 1-22
- 10.1353/bio.2016.0021
- Article
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This essay examines long poems by contemporary women poets that represent examples of “poetic biography,” to consider the diversity of ways in which feminist poets are writing/documenting the lives of historical figures. I am chiefly concerned with investigating the potential for poetry to expand the field of biographical writing in relation to the female historical voice (as both the writer and the written).