The Daily Glance
Megan Volpert's Face Blindness is filled with lyrical poems, innovations, formal experiments, and speaker shifts. In a blurb, Gabe Gudding mentions that the book is written by Megan Volperts, and that seems appropriate, for there seems more than one poet behind the poems. It helps that Volpert has a sense of humor and sense of irony, so some of the poems are humorous but others are straight reactions to events, like someone passing. With several poems, she writes about the same experience from slightly different perspectives. This was odd to read at first since they seemed slightly like revisions, but I liked how she did it, and I almost wish she had a separate book totally written in such a style, i.e. rewriting a single event myriad times. She also pokes fun of academia and the poetry establishment.
in a literature class i discuss myselfThis book is interesting reading all the way through Volpert's bio.
and am called life-writing theorist
in a prose class i discuss myself
i am called non-fiction essayist
in a poetry class i discuss myself
i am called a poet.
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