{"id":1363,"date":"2012-02-15T19:57:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T19:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/product\/import-placeholder-for-2\/"},"modified":"2022-12-05T12:49:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T17:49:28","slug":"a-face-to-meet-the-faces","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/product\/a-face-to-meet-the-faces\/","title":{"rendered":"A Face to Meet the Faces"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Persona has a wide-ranging and far-reaching role in the literary tradition. Early in its history, poetry operated as an oral chronicle of important cultural and historical events, a way of both \u201cknowing\u201d and \u201cremembering,\u201d of handing down stories to future generations. The storyteller\u2019s point of view was of witness or scribe, and poems were very rarely written in the first-person narrative.<\/p>\n

Utilizing personae as both poetic alter ego and as a foil to their own narrative perspectives, modern poets retold the story. T. S. Eliot\u2019s \u201cThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,\u201d from which this anthology takes its title, is an excellent example of persona as alter ego, allowing the poet to voice the unspeakable and think the unthinkable without direct ownership, consequence, or reproach. In this way, the idea of \u201chiding behind a mask\u201d can be utterly revealing and liberating.<\/p>\n

The poems in this anthology represent the intersection of tradition and possibility. The poets range in age and accolade and draw their inspiration from sources that are as disparate as the ways in which information is disseminated in our multimedia world. From ancient mythology to popular culture, from fairy tales to tabloids, the voices in these poems address a wide range of issues that are historical, contemporary, and ultimately timeless.<\/p>\n

About the authors<\/h3>\n
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Stacey Lynn Brown received her MFA in Poetry from The University of Oregon. A poet, playwright, and essayist, she is the author of the book-length poem\u00a0Cradle Song<\/em>, which was published by C&R Press in 2009. She is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Oliver de la Paz is the author of four books of poetry:\u00a0Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby, Requiem for the Orchard,\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Post Subject: A Fable<\/i>. He is the co-editor of\u00a0A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poems\u00a0<\/i>and the co-chair of Kundiman.org’s advisory board. He teaches creative writing in the MFA program at Western Washington University.<\/p>\n

Other books by Oliver de la Paz<\/h3>\n