Creating Another Self: Voice in Modern American Personal Poetry, 2nd Edition - Softcover

Maio, Samuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931112509 ISBN 13: 9781931112505

Publisher: Truman State Univ Pr, 2005

Synopsis

In this expanded and updated volume, Samuel Maio is definitive and comprehensive in his discussion of American personal poetry. While broadening the concept of persona to include the first-person speaker, he analyzes representative poets categorized by the aesthetics of voice, demonstrating these poets’ far-reaching influence into the 21st century.

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This marvelous study of the various modes of poetic voice in American poetry is truly impressive in its breadth and the conclusions Professor Maio draws from the examination of some of the most important poets of the 20th century—from Robert Lowell to Robert Bly. Maio’s eye and ear never fail him, most particularly in his exegesis of John Berryman and David Ignatow, and his conclusions about who is speaking, and how and why, are at times astonishing, reshaping our perception of poets as diverse as Walt Whitman and Bruce Weigl. Creating Another Self is a kind of creation itself, an eye- opening view of from whence poetry, that sweet bird of youth, springs. —Lucia Guerra-Cunningham, Professor of Spanish, University of California, Irvine

This book, brilliant in its original insights, has now been made even more persuasive and immeasurably more valuable by its expansion and Maio’s investigations of the ways that personal poetry, as he describes it, suffuses the work of very recent, contemporary poets, especially Black, Asian-American and Hispanic-American authors, whose work he predicted even before their poems were written. —Jay Martin, Edward S. Gould Professor of Humanities, Claremont Graduate University

This expanded second edition includes many recent multicultural poets, but like the original volume, concentrates on technique rather than explication (which comes as a bonus). I appreciate his clarity, his lack of jargon, and his informed discussion, for Maio the critic is an excellent poet as well. I learned from him. —Peter L. Hays, Professor of English, University of California, Davis

About the Author

Samuel Maio is professor of English and comparative literature at California State University, San José, where he has been recognized for his scholarship and teaching excellence. Maio’s publications include his poetry collection, The Burning of Los Angeles, and the first edition of Creating Another Self. He received his Ph.D. in American and Comparative Literature from the University of Southern California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Truman State Univ Pr
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1931112509
• ISBN 13: 9781931112505
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 352