After Confession: Poetry as Autobiography
. Graywolf Press, $17.95 (341pp) ISBN 978-1-55597-355-1
Louise Glick, Yusef Komunyakaa, Claudia Rankine, Frank Bidart, U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins and 25 others explore verse that takes the poet's own life as its subject in After Confession: Poetry As Autobiography, edited by the Wisconsin-based poets David Graham (Stutter Monk) and Kate Sontag. Poems and (mostly) essays, new and (mostly) reprinted from journals or books, consider such poetry's heritage, and its powers. (Oct.)
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Reviewed on: 09/01/2001
Genre: Fiction