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Confessional poet
A confessional poet traffics in intimate, and perhaps derogatory, information about him or herself, in poems about illness, sexuality, despondence and the like. The Confessionalist label was applied to a number of poets of the 1950s and 1960s, including Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath.
Later developments in confessional poetry begin to blur the distinctions between a public and a private activism. Authors like Denise Levertov, Adrienne Rich, and Audre Lorde present personal difficulties in a socio-political context. Lorde's poem, "Coal" reflects on such personal problems within a given cultural context. Also in Levertov's, "Life at War" there is something inextricably personal bound the the conflict of the age.
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