Critical Essay by M. Travis Lane
One of the most useful things poets can do for their art is to invent a speaker who creates in his or her or its point-of-view feelings, flesh, and world—the s...
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Critical Essay by Douglas Barbour
Marilyn Bowering's One Who Became Lost is a strong second book from this young poet. Not all the poems work, but all make their presence felt. Bowering'...
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Critical Essay by Robert Billings
[Susan] Musgrave and Plath seem to be the major influences on Marilyn Bowering. The Killing Room, Bowering's first full length collection, is filled with the ...
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Critical Essay by Chaviva Hosek
The Killing Room by Marilyn Bowering is presided over by the voice of a witchy female, a persona we may recognize from the work of other contemporary poets, most notab...
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Critical Essay by Douglas Barbour
The poems in The Killing Room are often powerful but it is a power of despair, of acceding to death in all its forms without fighting back. 'Death is wide�...
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Critical Essay by Janet Giltrow
Marilyn Bowering's The Visitors Have all Returned is "experimental" fiction, but its innovations draw it towards poetry. Bowering presents action ...
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Critical Essay by Bruce Whiteman
On the front cover of Marilyn Bowering's new book of poems there is a photograph of the poet. She is, as the acknowledgements inform us, wearing an expensive d...
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Critical Essay by John Oughton
[In Giving Back Diamonds] Bowering does give diamonds back, moulded from the coal of her experience…. Bowering's lines are honed, her words deliberately a...
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Critical Essay by M. Travis Lane
