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Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. THE BLIND CHATELAINE'S KEYS takes its
impetus from three impossibilities: (i) biography (and
autobiography)-something is always left out, (ii) artistic criticism:
the critic's subjectivity inevitably comes to play, and (iii) pure
persona in poems-the poet's self remains a presence no matter how much a
poet may wish to disrupt the "I". Eileen R. Tabios, known as
"Chatelaine" in poetry blogland, uses others' criticisms and engagements
of her writings to create a narrative arc that serves as a biography.
Since the biography is based (mostly) on her poems, it conceptually
pushes the idea summed up by Ted Berrigan: "there is a self inside
almost all of the poems."
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