Author

David Wojahn

David Wojahn’s book Icehouse Lights won the 1981 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition and has recently been published by Yale University Press. He teaches at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. [1994]

CONTRIBUTIONS

Nonfiction

Sep 01 1996

Generations "I": The Future of Autobiographical Poetry

Robert Lowell, circa 1962 or ’63, is looking at the camera with the sort of fixed intensity that’s displayed in so many of his photos. He’s wearing the black owlish hornrims which were the uniform of the myopic early sixties, a time when the rose-colored granny glasses of the Byrds’ Roger McGuinn and John Lennon’s oval wirerims, shading acid-dilated pupils, were still unknown.