{"product_id":"9780943549330","title":"Creating Another Self: Voice in Modern American Personal Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003eCreating Another Self makes two significant literary assertions. First, that all first-person voice poetry necessarily involves a \"masking\" of some kind; and second, that all personal poetry falls into one of three masking modes: the confessional, the persona, and the self-effacing. Samuel Maio supports these claims with an in-depth analysis of the work of representative poets, three for each mode: Robert Lowell, James Wright, and Anne Sexton (confessional); John Berryman, Weldon Kees, and Galway Kinnell (persona); and Mark Strand, Charles Simic, and David Ignatow (self-effacing). Further, the book draws on the work of several newer poets such as Garrett Hongo and Jim Barnes to suggest that personal poetry has had a far reaching influence on 20th century poetry. A work of theoretical criticism, and not a survey of personal poets, Creating Another Self suggests that contemporary personal poetry is a distinctive phase begun in the 1950s and coming to a close in the 1990s. The book is an important work for scholars of American literature and for creative writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Publishing Association","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013286150384,"sku":"9780943549330","price":75.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780943549330_p0.gif?v=1763865370","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780943549330","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}