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autobiography
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contemporary
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elizabeth bishop
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essay collection
experimental
form
formal
frank bidart
literary
literature
louise gluck
modern
personhood
poems
poet
poetic
poetics
poetry
postwar
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real life
robert lowell
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united states
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Product details
- ISBN 9780226103839
- Weight: 284g
- Dimensions: 15 x 22mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 2011
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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"One Kind of Everything" elucidates the uses of autobiography and constructions of personhood in American poetry since World War II, with helpful reference to American literature in general since Emerson. Taking on one of the most crucial issues in American poetry of the last fifty years, celebrated poet Dan Chiasson explores what is lost or gained when real-life experiences are made part of the subject matter and source material for poetry. In five extended, scholarly essays - on Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Frank Bidart, Frank O'Hara, and Louise Gluck - Chiasson looks specifically to bridge the chasm between formal and experimental poetry in the United States. Regardless of form, Chiasson argues that recent American poetry is most thoughtful when it engages forcefully with autobiographical material, either in an effort to embrace it or denounce it.
Dan Chiasson is associate professor of English at Wellesley College. He is the author of three books of poetry: The Afterlife of Objects, Natural History, and Where's the Moon, There's the Moon.
