Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Norbert Blei - Poetry Dispatch No. 269

Norbert Blei has a fine article over at Poetry Dispatch entitled The Poetry of Persona and the Divided Self. He writes:

Not every poet finds a reason or need to develop a voice within a voice, another 'persona' if you will, but for sometime a number of poets (Americans in particular) have been getting outside/inside themselves in a way writers of fiction create 'characters' or characters to voice other levels of meaning.

Click Poetry Dispatch No. 269 to read the entire article.

Hmmm...has this technique been used in writing haiku?