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“Each
volume in the probing Graywolf Forum series explores a theme lush
with psychological, cultural, social, and political complexities:
memory, technology and art, sports, and now privacy. Poet and memoirist
Peacock, a veteran when it comes to the risky work of exploring
the line between the private and the public, has ensured scintillating
coverage by assembling a group of writers not ordinarily encountered
within the same covers. Poet Yusef Komunyakaa proves to be a form-pushing
essayist as he considers everything from loud cellular phone conversations
to the burglarizing of his apartment, a nude beach, and the peddling
of private matters for public consumption for that much-touted 15
minutes of fame. Other freshly anointed privacy experts include
Dorothy Allison, Vivian Gornick, Jonathan Franzen, F. Gonzalez-Crussi,
and, surprise, Barbara Feldon, aka Agent 99. Peacock's worthy troupe
of articulate contributors provocatively illuminate diverse aspects
of our contradictory feelings about protecting and violating privacy. |
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> The Private I: Privacy in a Public World | Paradise,
Piece by Piece | How
To Read A Poem & Start A Poetry Circle The Private I: Privacy in a Public World a
collection of essays The Graywolf Forum Series How we find privacy and how we lose it is the scope of this lively and engaging collection of essays. Writers tackle the issue of privacy on many levels: global, communal, and the very personal. Subjects include a look at the implications of surveillance technology; an exploration of teen web sites and the lives of the girls who make them; and thoughts on the polarity of a warm, sometimes claustrophobic, Latin community vs. cold North American isolation. Authors include well-known writers and poets, plus attorneys, an actor, a physician, a psychologist, a man serving time in prison, a recent college graduate, and a scholar: Anita Allen, Dorothy Allison, Barbara Feldon, Jonathan Franzen, Bronwyn Garrity, F. Gonzalez-Crussi, Vivian Gornick, Michael Groden, Evans D. Hopkins, Wayne Koestenbaum, Yusef Komunyakaa, Wendy Lesser, Cathleen Medwick, Kathleen Norris, Josip Novakovich, Molly Peacock, Victoria Roberts, Janna Malamud Smith, and Robin West. For an excerpt of this collection of essays, click here
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