Articulating Artemisia: Revisioning the lives of women from history in biographical poetry
H Rickerby - biography, 2016 - JSTOR
H Rickerby
biography, 2016•JSTORIn" The New Biography," Virginia Woolf warns against mixing" the truth of real life and the
truth of fiction." But does poetry inhabit a liminal space, where ordinary rules of fiction and
non-fiction don't apply? Is factual the same as true? And what does the form of poetry bring
to biography. This essay reflects on these ideas in relation to the author's own practice of
writing biographical poetry, focusing on poems about the lives of women from history
published in My Iron Spine (2008), using as a particular example" Artemisia Gentileschi …
truth of fiction." But does poetry inhabit a liminal space, where ordinary rules of fiction and
non-fiction don't apply? Is factual the same as true? And what does the form of poetry bring
to biography. This essay reflects on these ideas in relation to the author's own practice of
writing biographical poetry, focusing on poems about the lives of women from history
published in My Iron Spine (2008), using as a particular example" Artemisia Gentileschi …
In "The New Biography," Virginia Woolf warns against mixing "the truth of real life and the truth of fiction." But does poetry inhabit a liminal space, where ordinary rules of fiction and non-fiction don't apply? Is factual the same as true? And what does the form of poetry bring to biography. This essay reflects on these ideas in relation to the author's own practice of writing biographical poetry, focusing on poems about the lives of women from history published in My Iron Spine (2008), using as a particular example "Artemisia Gentileschi, 1593–circa 1642."
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