Confessional Poets

[Ben Jackson]

Confessional poetry is an artistic movement originated from United States in the late 1950s and early 60s, focusing on individual experience, psyche and personal trauma, taboo subject matters, suicide and sexuality and mental illnesses often set in relation to broader social themes.

Key Members:

Robert Lowell
Sylvia Plath
Anne Sexton
John Berryman
William Snodgrass
Adrienne Rich
Sharon Olds
Marie Howe
Franz Wright

Confessionalists influenced songwriters like Taylor Swift, Adele, Peter Gabriel, Carole King, Madonna, Alanis Morrisette, Morrissey.

 

[Benny Profane]

Great thread, Ben! Well, taking the opportunity, in parallel, I'd like to instill here another similar movement in Brazil, sliced in 2 imbricated parts, called as "Geração Mimeógrafo" ["Mimeo Generation"] in Poetry and "Tropicalismo" or "Tropicália" ["Tropicalism"] in music who focused in Confesional Poetry.
Key figures: Paulo Leminski, Waly Salomão, Chacal, Cacaso, Torquato Neto, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Tom Zé, etc.

 

[pieranis]

I know this is quite an old thread but I recently discovered Anne Sexton and I'm in love.

 

[Benny Profane]

I know this is quite an old thread but I recently discovered Anne Sexton and I'm in love.

Very welcome to our board!