Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
I've never read any Anne Sexton; all I know is that she's the über-Confessional poet and that she killed herself. Someone once said I look like her; I wouldn't know.I should say, rather, that I had never read Anne Sexton -- now, I suppose, I have. Somehow I came across ...
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
My dissertation is a history of the villanelle, the 19-line alternating-refrain two-rhyme poetic form best known as the form of Dylan Thomas's 1951 "Do not go gentle into that good night" and Elizabeth Bishop's 1976 "One Art." I'm not sure I ever say this explicitly in the dissertation, but I ...
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