Books Quote by Matthea Harvey

Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic…

— Cate Marvin

I think that the casual reader and the lyric and confession are trickily tied up together. I mean often when I read my students'…

— Shane McCrae

One of the problems with a lot of "confessional" writing is that it starts and stops with the confessional and doesn't really tie the…

— Kiese Laymon

"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion.

— Matthea Harvey

Confession may well be a dirty word in poetry.

— Lucie Brock-Broido

Confessionalism relates to writers of color. I think confessional poetry is in its way very Catholic, capital C. One of the formative ideas of…

— Shane McCrae

I'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think "confessing" is…

— Kiese Laymon

I've never been a confessional writer.

— KT Tunstall

My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.

— Michael Pollan

Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do…

— John Climacus

“What a need we humans have for confession. To a priest, to a friend, to a psychoanalyst, to a relative, to an enemy, even…

— Aidan Chambers

It's not a confession if no one reads it. It's just an unshared secret.

— Colleen Hoover