{"id":260558,"date":"2024-01-25T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electricliterature.com\/?p=260558"},"modified":"2024-01-25T13:10:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T18:10:33","slug":"8-unapologetically-confessional-books-by-feminist-poets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electricliterature.com\/8-unapologetically-confessional-books-by-feminist-poets\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Unapologetically TMI Books by Feminist Poets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My first semester in graduate school for my MFA in poetry, I locked myself in my room in the apartment I shared with five roommates in the Lower Haight in San Francisco to write a paper about Robert Lowell\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/269\/9780374530969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Life Studies<\/a><\/em>, the book widely considered to kick off the confessional movement in American poetry. I still have the Robert Lowell paper saved deep in a folder within a folder on my hard drive, and I pull it up to see what 23-year-old me had to say about the confessional. Here\u2019s part of my thesis: \u201cWhile it is certainly true that Lowell\u2019s autobiographical writing in <em>Life Studies<\/em> has greatly influenced some escapist, arbitrary, and amateur confessional writing, <em>Life Studies<\/em> itself is filled with much more than arbitrary detail, and extends far beyond escapist writing.\u201d Escapist, arbitrary, amateur. This list of words used to deride and dismiss the confessional\u2014to which my present-day self would add, self-indulgent, overly emotional, hysterical\u2014strike me now as very gendered. It\u2019s interesting to me that I\u2014a self-proclaimed feminist then and now\u2014was using the poetry of a white cis man to argue that a poetic mode primarily associated with young women\u2019s writing\u2014and one that I used in my own grad school poems about female friendship, music, lip gloss, walking around in the mall in the 1990s\u2014can indeed be valid, powerful, and even political. By arguing that Lowell\u2019s personal poems were in fact astute social commentary, was I also arguing this same case for my own?<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/269\/9781959556701\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/electricliterature.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/71qjvZermL._AC_UF10001000_QL80_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-260563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/electricliterature.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/71qjvZermL._AC_UF10001000_QL80_.jpg 267w, https:\/\/electricliterature.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/71qjvZermL._AC_UF10001000_QL80_-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>Life Studies<\/em> may have been one of the first books to introduce confessionalism into American poetry, but the term confessional is most often linked with Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and other women poets whose writing is too commonly misread and dismissed as autobiographical gushings of emotion rather than crafted, intentional social commentary. My new book of poems, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/269\/9781959556701\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DIARY<\/a><\/em>, interrogates these ideas about the confessional and gender. Rather than engaging in the acrobatics of trying to come across as not too emotional, not too messy, not too personal; always measured and buttoned up and chill and <em>universal<\/em>, the poems in my book indulge in the mundane, the feminine, the bratty and sad and bodily and TMI. I\u2019m so excited and inspired by other contemporary writing by women and gender-fluid poets who push back on antiquated and sexist ideas around the confessional by doing the same. Here\u2019s a list of 8 books in this vein:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amyberko.com\/shop\/p\/gravitas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"258\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/electricliterature.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-08-at-7.12.32-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-260575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/electricliterature.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-08-at-7.12.32-PM.png 258w, https:\/\/electricliterature.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-08-at-7.12.32-PM-194x300.png 194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amyberko.com\/shop\/p\/gravitas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gravita<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amyberko.com\/shop\/p\/gravitas\">s<\/a><\/em> by Amy Berkowitz<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of graduate school, this necessary book digs into \u201cthe tendency of MFA programs to teach women that their lives aren\u2019t worth writing about.\u201d These crafted, conversational poems insist on the power and merit of everyday speech in women\u2019s writing, referencing the free-wheeling poetics of both Frank O\u2019Hara\u2019s <em>Lunch Poems<\/em> and Paule Marshall\u2019s \u201cFrom the Poets in the Kitchen.\u201d <em>Gravitas<\/em> interrogates an academic space that closes its eyes to a serial abuser professor on staff while chronically dismissing poems about the everyday by women: \u201cBelieving that poetry about the life of a young woman lacks gravitas \/ believing that the life of a young woman lacks gravitas \/ enables a certain cognitive dissonance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script\n      src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\"\n      data-type=\"featured\"\n      data-full-info=\"true\"\n      data-affiliate-id=\"269\"\n      data-sku=\"9781959708056\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/269\/9781959708056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Gone Thing<\/a><\/em> by Monica Mcclure&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The followup to McClure\u2019s 2015 book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/269\/9780991429820\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tender Data<\/a><\/em>, <em>The Gone Thing <\/em>explores family history, class mobility, labor, and loss in elegant, unflinching poems. One of my favorite things about Monica\u2019s work is how her speaker fucks with us, calls the reader to task, and plays with our assumptions: \u201cYes I am talking about being poor in America \/ Suck my dick I am no longer poor I\u2019m high-salaried\u201d. Pastoral beauty and designer perfume mixes with despair, disgust, filth, and astute commentary on systemic oppression, work and labor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script\n      src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\"\n      data-type=\"featured\"\n      data-full-info=\"true\"\n      data-affiliate-id=\"269\"\n      data-sku=\"9780819500762\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/269\/9780819500762\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mahogany<\/a><\/em> by erica lewis&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Written during the years when the author cared for her mother at the end of her life and after her mother\u2019s death, <em>mahogany<\/em> subverts conventional narratives around grief and the confessional with haunting poems about family, loss, and the struggle to make it through each day. Lewis weaves pop culture, politics, contemporary and historical literature into poems that draw their titles and inspiration from songs by Diana Ross and The Supremes or Ross\u2019s solo career: \u201cmy mother used to clean houses \/ as a child \/ some days I can barely \/ get out of bed \/in my mind \/ she\u2019s like diana ross \/ scrubbing the white lady\u2019s stairs \/ in <em>lady sings the blues<\/em> \/ except prettier \/ and with green eyes\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jenniffertamayo.com\/bruisebruisebreak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/electricliterature.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/bbb-covermockup-pinkbg-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-260569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/electricliterature.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/bbb-covermockup-pinkbg-copy.jpg 400w, https:\/\/electricliterature.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/bbb-covermockup-pinkbg-copy-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/electricliterature.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/bbb-covermockup-pinkbg-copy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/electricliterature.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/bbb-covermockup-pinkbg-copy-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jenniffertamayo.com\/bruisebruisebreak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Bruise\/bruise\/break<\/em><\/a> by Jennif(f)er Tamayo&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Printed in vibrant full color and blending poetry, prose, photography, and other visual elements, Tamayo\u2019s radical book connects the dots between cycles and systems of violence in U.S. history\u2014from the genocide of native people that the country was built on to the American poetry world\u2019s colonialist roots. Interspersed with images of U.S. immigration forms doctored to tell the poet\u2019s own family story, <em>bruise\/bruise\/break<\/em> digs into familial and global histories while blasting open conventions around genre, grammar, gender and respectability.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script\n      src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\"\n      data-type=\"featured\"\n      data-full-info=\"true\"\n      data-affiliate-id=\"269\"\n      data-sku=\"9781737803690\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/269\/9781737803690\"><em>Bedroom Vowel<\/em><\/a> by Zoe Tuck<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Zoe Tuck\u2019s poems break the fourth wall, inviting in talk about everything from work and money to friends and even commentary on the poems themselves: \u201cI\u2019m sick of the I \/ I wish I could just write about mythological and historical themes\u201d. Accounts of everyday life\u2014cooking dinner on a phone call with a friend, planning how to make \u201clike $1,000 this month,\u201d staying up late watching <em>Encino Man<\/em>\u2014are balanced with reflections on the French Renaissance, tarot, Ancient Greece, Hannah Arendt, The Odyssey, The X-Files, \u201cThe Thong Song.\u201d The result is a constellation of references that builds on itself into the size of a whole life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script\n      src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\"\n      data-type=\"featured\"\n      data-full-info=\"true\"\n      data-affiliate-id=\"269\"\n      data-sku=\"9780979975547\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/269\/9780979975547\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Killing Ka<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/269\/9780979975547\">noko<\/a><\/em> by Hiromi It\u014d, translated by Jeffrey Angles<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Groundbreaking Japanese poet Hiromi It\u014d has been writing about feminist issues surrounding sexuality, reproduction and the body since the early 1980s. Turning away from the formal poetic conventions of the era, her poetry uses colloquial, sometimes childlike and vulgar language which brought to her being considered a \u201cshamanness\u201d pulling her language \u201cfrom some mysterious source deep within.\u201d In <em>Killing Kanoko, <\/em>originally published in 1980 and translated in 2009, It\u014d writes about childbirth, menopause, abortion, and ambivalence around motherhood in ways that still feel very much taboo even today.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script\n      src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\"\n      data-type=\"featured\"\n      data-full-info=\"true\"\n      data-affiliate-id=\"269\"\n      data-sku=\"9781735678375\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/269\/9781735678375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dark Beds<\/a> <\/em>by Diana Whitney<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Diana Whitney\u2019s quietly explosive collection of poems explores womanhood, motherhood, grief, the spaces where being the parent of a girl child and being a woman overlap with scars left over from childhood. There\u2019s \u201cdanger everywhere\u201d in these moody, atmospheric poems that bring a modern, feminist spin to the pastoral as they conjure\u00a0the natural world, dark skies, early morning gardens and frozen rivers. Time passes and everything grows so fast and also in slow motion\u2014chickens, lilacs, girls, relationships strained by the years. As Whitney\u2019s poem \u201cThe Long Goodbye\u201d asks, \u201cHow can you savor what you have \/ when it demands so much attention?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script\n      src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\"\n      data-type=\"featured\"\n      data-full-info=\"true\"\n      data-affiliate-id=\"269\"\n      data-sku=\"9781957248189\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/269\/9781957248189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What You Refuse to Remember<\/a><\/em> by MT Vallarta&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>This book\u2019s speaker tells us, \u201cI once wrote on a fellowship application that I write poetry because it is the only way I can scream. I didn&#8217;t get the fellowship.\u201d This is just one example of how these powerful poems exploring queer Filipinx identity, trauma, immigration, colonization, and art call into question the rules of academia and the so-called rational world. In a white supremacist patriarchal culture where science and logic are so often privileged over the spiritual, emotional, and intangible, these poems insist the full spectrum of humanity has a right to exist, thrive, and be taken seriously.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first semester in graduate school for my MFA in poetry, I locked myself in my room in the apartment I shared with five roommates in the Lower Haight in San Francisco to write a paper about Robert Lowell\u2019s Life Studies, the book widely considered to kick off the confessional movement in American poetry. 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