No, I am sure I am not doing that. I am responding to the issue of
biography.
You wrote: "would something like Sanders' America in verse be viewed as a
biography of
America?"
Now, I do object to the use of the term of biography instead of the proper
one, that in the case of a nation is called HISTORY.
Biography refers to people and that s' why I was being pedantic:
biographical poetry is either about someone else than the writer himself or
about the writer himself and therefore autobiographical. Poetry of the self.
(bio-graphical poetry, meaning an account of someone's life as a living
creature).
I feel distressed at the idea of America so personified as to have
biographies (as though it was an existing woman).
In fact the etymology refers to the being as being alive.
But maybe in the Anglophone world you define as bio history.
On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 22:25:25 -0600, Thomas Bell, Psyd <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>This gets somewhat confusing when you talk with actual multiples who may or
>may not pay attention to what the others say.
>
>tom
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Erminia Passannanti" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 10:15 AM
>Subject: Re: biographical poetry
>
>
>> We could reflect upon an issue such as whether it is possible or not to
>> distinguish the self from its narratives: from a theoretical point of
>> view , I believe that the self should remove its primacy for the sake of
>> the epics of the "other", therefore becoming biographical of other
>people's
>> lives (as in Brecht). But I doubt that this is truly possible.
>> I tend to think that all poetry is indeed a disguised form of
>autobiography
>> to the expenses of the biographical interest on the other's life.
>> Intertexuality is a good mean to write biographical poetry, continuing
>> writing about one's self, but in a more understated fashion.
>> biographical poetry, also, serves the ethics of dialogue.
>> well, in a way, all poetical translations are a form of biographical
>poetry.
>>
>> uhmm.
>> Erminia
would something like Sanders' America in verse be viewed as a biogrqaphy of
America?
tom bell
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