Art is Autobiographical
Assignment #13
Maya Angelou said in an interview here that all art is auto-biographical an confessional in some way. In that mode of thinking, write a poem that indirectly deals with something from your past that isn’t in the first person and isn’t narrative. This way you can focus on the effects of the event, without falling into the “trap of what happened.” Convey the emotion, and keep in mind the things Charles Simic said about writing.
Posted: February 6th, 2010 under Exercises.