Critical, Ethical and Informed Poetic Observation: A Study on the Craft of Documentary Poetry
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2021-08-10
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Bouillon, Carlee Anne
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I entered my research venture with the idea that I was going to synthesize a definition of documentary poetry. But because it is a young genre, documentary poetry is highly fluid and impressionable: each time an artist adds to its canon, the genre grows and changes. It shares fundamentals with several other foundational art forms, but it also extends past each of them. To consider a “definition”—which must be fundamentally non-comprehensive, as it evolves alongside the canon—I first had to think about what documentary poetry is not, and what it is more than.
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Documentary, poetry, witness, creative nonfiction, writing