Rodney Jones: Overriding the Autobiographical First-Person Default: Writing Poetry in Fictional Points-of-View (July 2015)

Jones’ lecture discusses the difficulties and advantages of overriding the first-person point of view in poetry, looking at Anne Carson’s “The Glass Essay,” Ellen Bryant Voigt’s Kyrie, Michael Ondaajte’s  The Collected Works of Billy the Kid,  as well as works by Karen Solie and Larry Levis.