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Comment by Becoming SuperMommy on September 21, 2011 at 1:46pm

It's not a poem, but it is post-confessional.

http://becomingsupermommy.blogspot.com/2011/09/pouring-my-heart-out...

Comment by Amy Jo Sprague on August 4, 2011 at 11:22am

My latest favorite poet is Matthew Dickman.  Check out this HEART-BREAKING poem "Benelovence" up at Narrative.

Comment by Amy Jo Sprague on June 23, 2011 at 8:22pm

http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/michael-dickman-we-d...
Great poem by Michael Dickman

Comment by Amanda Williams on June 20, 2011 at 3:12pm

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Comment by Amy Jo Sprague on June 18, 2011 at 4:07pm

fabulous poet/confessional Matthew Dickman: check out "Blue Sky" and 2 other poems

Comment by Becoming SuperMommy on June 7, 2011 at 6:56am

This post provides context, and then the poem.  I hope you find it as healing as I did.

http://becomingsupermommy.blogspot.com/2011/06/it-wasnt-my-fault.html

Comment by Kelli Swearingen on June 6, 2011 at 6:34am

I think her last name is German. I've seen the name before and it usually has umlauts over the the u. Umlauts are those two little dots you see over certain words. It's prounounced with a hard g. it's prounounced g-look. Gluck means luck in German also.

Comment by Amy Jo Sprague on June 5, 2011 at 5:13am

What some critics are saying about Louise Gluck (at The Poetry Foundation):

According to Warren, Glück’s “power [is] to distance the lyric ‘I’ as subject
and object of attention” and to “impose a discipline of detachment upon urgently
subjective material.” Glück’s early books feature personae grappling with the
aftermaths of failed love affairs, disastrous family encounters, and existential
despair, and her later work continues to explore the agony of the self. In the
New York Times, critic William Logan described her work as “the
logical outcome of a certain strain of confessional verse—starved of adjectives,
thinned to a nervous set of verbs, intense almost past bearing, her poems have
been dark, damaged and difficult to avert your gaze from.”

 

If you're interested in some of her poems, here's a link to my fav's of hers

 

Comment by Amy Jo Sprague on June 4, 2011 at 7:42pm

So I've become a huge fan of Louise Gluck.  How do you say here last name?  And I found a few more by Sharon Olds that just strike me through the heart!  Time-Travel and Night Terrors.  Wow.  And Gluck's Snow, Mother and Child, The Empty Glass, I'll post links later

Comment by Amy Jo Sprague on June 4, 2011 at 7:41pm

A warm welcome to all our new members!!  We're up to 19!!! Feel free to share, dig in, start discussions, whatever! Glad to have you here!

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