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In a message dated 11/13/01 7:17:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: << Where, to bring it home (for me) to Canada, would we put Atwood's Journals of Susannah Moodie, Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Scobie's McAlmon's Chinese Opera & The Ballad of Isabel Gunn, Bowering's George, Vancouver, & many other such book-length poems? Admitedly, many are written in the first person, but history almost always is an important context, & they do play off what is known biographically about their titular figures... It get's very complicated I suspect... Doug >> Biographical poetry has often been cast in the first person: dramatic monologue. The poet Ai is a contemporary American master of this approach. Another couple of poetry-biographies, done in first person, and both worth looking up: _Beside Herself: Pocahontas to Patty Heart_ by Pamela Hadas White & an her earlier collection _Designing Women_. Finnegan