Barbara Wiedemann
| Barbara Wiedemann | |
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 Barbara Wiedemann reads at the 2009 Montgomery Bookfest | |
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October 30, 1945 Somerville, New Jersey |
Barbara Wiedemann is an American poet.
Wiedemann, who received her Ph.D. from the University of South Florida, has published one book of poetry, besides a number of poems in literary journals. She is the author of one monograph and co-editor of two critical studies. She was formerly a professor of English literature at Auburn Montgomery.
Poetry
Wiedemann has published poems in a number of journals, including Kaleidoscope, Kerf, Poetry Motel, and Acorn. A chapbook of her poetry entitled Half-Life of Love was published by Finishing Line Press. Another chapbook, Death of a Pope and Other Poems, is to be published in the fall of 2012.[1]
Critical studies
Wiedemann has authored a critical study, Josephine Herbst’s Short Fiction: A Window to Her Life and Times, on the work of Josephine Herbst, the radical American writer, and is the co-editor of two books, Short Fiction: A Critical Companion and "My Name Was Martha": A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem. The latter is the first edition of a 1632 autobiographical poem, 110 lines long, by a woman called Martha Moulsworth—one of the first such poems in English, which was included in the seventh edition of the Norton Anthology of English Literature.[2]
Her essay on Hélène Cixous and Marguerite Duras, "The Search for an Authentic Voice: Hélène Cixous and Marguerite Duras", was reprinted in the collection Marguerite Duras Lives On.[3]
Bibliography
- Wiedemann, Barbara (2008). Half-Life of Love. Finishing Line Press. ISBN 978-1-59924-144-9. (poetry).[4]
- Wiedemann, Barbara (1998). Josephine Herbst’s Short Fiction: A Window to Her Life and Times. Susquehanna UP. ISBN 978-1-57591-007-9. (monograph).
- Wiedemann, Barbara (Fall 1989). "The Search for an Authentic Voice: Hélène Cixous and Marguerite Duras". Journal of Durassian Studies. 1: 99–114. (journal article)
- Evans, Robert C.; Anne Little; Barbara Wiedemann (1997). Short Fiction: A Critical Companion. West Cornwall: Locust Hill Press. ISBN 978-0-933951-73-0. (edited collection).
- Evans, Robert C.; Barbara Wiedemann (1993). "My Name Was Martha": A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem. West-Cornwall: Locust Hill Press. (monograph).[5]
References
- ↑ Evans, Bob (19 October 2012). "Q&A: Author says poets should trust their own voice". Montgomery Advertiser. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
- ↑ Martha Moulsworth, "The Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth, Widow," in Abrams, M. H. (2000). Norton Anthology of English Literature. 1 (7th ed.). New York: Norton. pp. 1552–55, A–30. ISBN 978-0-393-97566-6.
- ↑ Ricouart, Janine (1998). Marguerite Duras Lives On. UP of America. ISBN 978-0-7618-1206-7.
- ↑ Reviewed in Latham, Irene (September 2008). "Rev. of Barbara Wiedemann, Half-Life of Love". Alabama Writers' Forum. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
- ↑ For reviews of the book, see Norbrook, David (December 1994). "Rev. of "My Name was Martha": A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem". Notes and Queries. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 41 (4): 566. and Haslem, Lori Schroeder (Spring 1996). "Rev of "My Name Was Martha": A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem". Renaissance Quarterly. 49 (1): 170. doi:10.2307/2863301.
External links
- Official website
- Evans, Robert C.; Barbara Wiedemann (1993). "'My Name Was Martha': A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem". Locust Hill Press. Archived from the original on 2009-07-23. Retrieved 2009-04-25. Online edition, with minor revisions.