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Macha Rosenthal

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Macha Louis Rosenthal (1917 – 21 July 1996) was an American poet and editor.[1][2] The W. B. Yeats Society of New York renamed their award for achievement in Yeats studies, the M. L. Rosenthal Award after Rosenthal's death. His esay Poetry as Confession is credited with first application of the the term 'confession' to an approach to the writing of poetry, and thus being the source for the name of the Confessional poetry movement.

Works

Poetry

  • Blue Boy on Skates: Poems (1964)
  • Beyond Power: New Poems (1969)

Essays and Reviews

  • Our Life in Poetry: Selected Essays and Reviews (1991)

References

  1. ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9405EEDA1639F930A15754C0A960958260
  2. ^ http://www.pshares.org/authors/authordetails.cfm?prmAuthorID=1303
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