Abstract
What happens when a poet steals from her own literary life? This work experiments with the imaginative potential cf a few generic subtypes - the confessional poem, the lyric essay, the prose poem and the cento - all of which could be said to be hybrids. Primarily, it plays with the cento, a genre with plagiarism at its heart, composed of the words of revered literary figures. Interweaving lines from my previous books - self-plagiarising - allows the cento to be problematised.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Offshoot |
| Subtitle of host publication | Contemporary Life Writing Methodologies and Practice |
| Editors | Donna Lee Brien, Quinn Eades |
| Publisher | University of Western Australia Pubishing |
| Pages | 42-46 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Edition | 1st |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781742589626 |
| Publication status | Published - May 2018 |
Keywords
- life writing
- prose
- cento