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A wide ranging interview, almost a reminiscence, of Bruce Beaver by John Tranter. The two poets discuss common friendships, their poetry writing and the American and Australian poets that have influenced their work. Beaver also talks about his experiences with bi polar disorder and kidney dialysis and his early life working in the country and in New Zealand where he met his wife. He also comments on his association with Grace Perry and Poetry Australia .
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Diminished but Never Dismissed : The Confessional Poetry of Sylvia Plath and Bruce Beaver
2015
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— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 29 no. 1 2015; (p. 117-127) 'Using The Collected Poems (1981), Schetrumpf investigates Sylvia Plath's use of lyric address and her confrontation with patriarchal oppression, post-Holocaust existence, depression, and suicide. She also examines two of the recurring symbols that lead to the primal core of her poetry. She then compare Plath's content and methods with Bruce Beaver's experiments with various forms of lyric address, confrontation with mental illness, politicized war, and postmodern violence, and experiences of aging and death in Letters to Live Poets (1969). Finally, she examines two of the encoded symbols of the many that litter Beaver's landscapes of Manly.' (Publication abstract)
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Diminished but Never Dismissed : The Confessional Poetry of Sylvia Plath and Bruce Beaver
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 29 no. 1 2015; (p. 117-127) 'Using The Collected Poems (1981), Schetrumpf investigates Sylvia Plath's use of lyric address and her confrontation with patriarchal oppression, post-Holocaust existence, depression, and suicide. She also examines two of the recurring symbols that lead to the primal core of her poetry. She then compare Plath's content and methods with Bruce Beaver's experiments with various forms of lyric address, confrontation with mental illness, politicized war, and postmodern violence, and experiences of aging and death in Letters to Live Poets (1969). Finally, she examines two of the encoded symbols of the many that litter Beaver's landscapes of Manly.' (Publication abstract)
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