Poems About Other People

For more than half a century most mainstream, accessible, non-experimental, American poetry has been autobiographical. But where other poets zigged the poet whose penname was Ai and whose legal name was Florence Ai Ogawa zagged; for four decades preceding her death from breast cancer at age 62 in 2010 she mostly wrote persona poems: first person dramatic narratives in the voices of fictional or historical characters.

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