Always this very multi-layered sense of place in Kinsella's writing. I'm
aware of his anti-nationalism, which means it would be crass to identify him
too quickly and approvingly as a very "Australian" poet, but the land and
its people are always there, pushing up against the graph of the landscape.
Compare and contrast Douglas Oliver's auto/biographical writing. Writing as
retreat and retread. Besides moral anguish there is also a replenished and
replenishing (revivifying...fructifying...) alertness about these exercises:
the point is not excoriation of the self for its past, or of the past for
itself, but a retracing and retaking of steps.
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From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: Cortland Review: J.K.'s feature
> The biography pieces have just come out in print as a Salt book, called
_Auto_.
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> >*An F.Y.I., J. K.'s autobiography feature, especially timely given the
> >list's recent Bio venture.
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> > THE CORTLAND REVIEW NEWSLETTER
> >> January 9, 2002
> >> http://www.cortlandreview.com/index.html/nl0102
> >
> >OfferJohn Kinsella's exclusive autobiographical series with a new
> >installment entitled, "Further Evidence."
> >
> >Gerald
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