Barbara Wiedemann - Misplaced Pages

American poet (born 1945)

Barbara Wiedemann
Barbara Wiedemann reads at the 2009 Montgomery Bookfest
Born	(1945-10-30) October 30, 1945 (age 79) Somerville, New Jersey

Barbara Wiedemann (born October 30, 1945) is an American poet. She has published four books of poetry, besides a number of poems in literary journals. She is the author of one monograph and co-editor of two critical studies. She was formerly a professor of English literature at Auburn University at Montgomery.

Early life

Barbara Wiedemann was born on October 30, 1945, and grew up in upstate New York. She received her Ph.D. from the University of South Florida.

Poetry

Wiedemann has published poems in a number of journals, including Kaleidoscope, Kerf, Poetry Motel, and Acorn. Four of her collections were published by Finishing Line Press: Half-Life of Love (2008), Sometime in October (2013), Death of a Pope and Other Poems (2012), and Desert Meditations (2018).

Critical studies

Wiedemann has authored a critical study, Josephine Herbst's Short Fiction: A Window to Her Life and Times, on the work of Josephine Herbst, the radical American writer, and is the co-editor of two books, Short Fiction: A Critical Companion and "My Name Was Martha": A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem. The latter is the first edition of a 1632 autobiographical poem, 110 lines long, by Martha Moulsworth—one of the first such poems in English, which was included in the seventh edition of the Norton Anthology of English Literature.

Her essay on Hélène Cixous and Marguerite Duras, "The Search for an Authentic Voice: Hélène Cixous and Marguerite Duras", was reprinted in the collection Marguerite Duras Lives On.

Selected works

Wiedemann, Barbara (2018). Desert Meditations. Finishing Line Press. ISBN 978-1-63534-440-0.
Wiedemann, Barbara (2013). The Death of a Pope and Other Poems. Finishing Line Press. ISBN 978-1-62229-318-6.
Wiedemann, Barbara (2010). Sometime in October. Finishing Line Press. ISBN 978-1-59924677-2.
Wiedemann, Barbara (2008). Half-Life of Love. Finishing Line Press. ISBN 978-1-59924-144-9. (poetry).
Wiedemann, Barbara (1998). Josephine Herbst's Short Fiction: A Window to Her Life and Times. Susquehanna UP. ISBN 978-1-57591-007-9. (monograph).
Evans, Robert C.; Anne Little; Barbara Wiedemann (1997). Short Fiction: A Critical Companion. West Cornwall: Locust Hill Press. ISBN 978-0-933951-73-0. (edited collection).
Evans, Robert C.; Barbara Wiedemann (1993). "My Name Was Martha": A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem. West-Cornwall: Locust Hill Press. (monograph).

References

^ "AUM English professor's new book chronicles death of pope, life in Italy". August 29, 2013. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
Evans, Bob (19 October 2012). "Q&A: Author says poets should trust their own voice". Montgomery Advertiser. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
Martha Moulsworth, "The Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth, Widow," in Abrams, M. H. (2000). Norton Anthology of English Literature. Vol. 1 (7 ed.). New York: Norton. pp. 1552–55, A–30. ISBN 978-0-393-97566-6.
Ricouart, Janine (1998). Marguerite Duras Lives On. UP of America. ISBN 978-0-7618-1206-7.
Reviewed in Latham, Irene (September 2008). "Rev. of Barbara Wiedemann, Half-Life of Love". Alabama Writers' Forum. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
For reviews of the book, see Norbrook, David (December 1994). "Rev. of "My Name was Martha": A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem". Notes and Queries. 41 (4). Oxford: Oxford University Press: 566. doi:10.1093/nq/41-4-566a. and Haslem, Lori Schroeder (Spring 1996). "Rev of "My Name Was Martha": A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem". Renaissance Quarterly. 49 (1): 170–171. doi:10.2307/2863301. JSTOR 2863301. S2CID 164113362.

External links

Official website
Evans, Robert C.; Barbara Wiedemann (1993). "'My Name Was Martha': A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem". Locust Hill Press. Archived from the original on 2009-07-23. Retrieved 2009-04-25. Online edition, with minor revisions.

Categories: