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Alan Williamson: stories about the self. (part 2) (Column)

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From: The American Poetry Review
Date: 19930901
Author:Williamson, Alan

Debra Allbery's 'The Reservoir,' Jeanne Foster's 'The Pearl River' and Brenda Hillman's 'Canyon' are well structured poems which express the process of self-education. Places such as Enterprise, OH, the Pear River and Tilden Park, while being presented as landscapes, are also used to represent mental states. These poems are examples of the contemporary poets' innovations with the confessional mode.

There is a quotation from Willa Cather that, for all its old-fashioned ring, has haunted me ever since I first came upon it:

If the writer achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it ...

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