Susan Yuzna

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Susan Yuzna
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Yuznas Biography

• Contemporary poet
• has a B.A. in English from the University of Iowa
  
• teaches English at the University of North Dakota
• Lives in Colorado

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Yuznas aesthetic

• Uses staccato framented syntax
• Tries to depict the postmodern woman
• Recreates the dizzying assault of media on our
  consciousness
• Sees a womans confrontation with the public/the
  streets as immediate and influential as domestic
  life.

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CD Wright

• Born in Arkansas to chancery judge and court
  reporter
• Started out in law, decided to become poet later
  in life
• Teaches at Brown University
• Considered an Elliptical Poet

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Elliptical Poets

• Mania
• Declarative quality
• Shift drastically from low to high diction
• Relentless dodging of or obstruction of
  expectation
• Sardonic, angered, defensively difficult

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Wrights aesthetic

• Started out narrative and became increasingly
  experimental
• Rooted in a sense of place and regional voices

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Wright audio

• http//media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Wrigh
  t-CD/Port-Townsend_1999/Wright-CD_05_And-It-Came-T
  o-Pass_Copper-Canyon-Session_Port-Townsend-WA_7-16
  -99.mp3
• http//writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?da
  te2002/08/03

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Hayden Carruth

• Born to newspaper editor in Connecticut
• Served in WWII in Italy
• Used GI Bill to go to school at University of
  Chicago
• Tumultuous life plagued by mental illness
• In 50s was hospitalized, then did hack work
• Worked on farms in Vermont

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Carruths aesthetic

• Dealt closely with the lives of other people
• Depicted the poor and regular folks in his
  poems
• Wrote landscapes and used imagery of nature in
  his poems
• His diction didnt vary wildly

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Biography

• http//www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/audioitem.
  html?id642