Alan Williamson – Stories About the Self (January 1993)

“Interest in the self and interest in the outside world,” says Alan Williamson, “are sometimes talked about as though they were mutually exclusive.”  In this lecture, he offers close readings of three long poems by Debra Allbery, Jeanne Foster Hill, and Brenda Hillman, each of which merge what he says “would once have been thought separate genres, bringing a new vitality and subtlety to both.”