Barbara Wiedemann
{{short description|American poet (born 1945)}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Barbara Wiedemann
| image = Wiedemann.jpg
| caption = Barbara Wiedemann reads at the 2009 Montgomery Bookfest
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1945|10|30}}
| birth_place = Somerville, New Jersey
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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.{{cite news|url=http://www.wsmv.com/story/23285851/aum-english-professors-new-book-chronicles-death-of-pope-life-in-italy|title=AUM English professor's new book chronicles death of pope, life in Italy|date=August 29, 2013|access-date=July 19, 2017}}
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.{{Citation needed|reason=This could be false|date=February 2017}} 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).{{cite news|url=http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012310210004 |title=Q&A: Author says poets should trust their own voice |last=Evans |first=Bob |date=19 October 2012 |work=Montgomery Advertiser |access-date=24 October 2012 }}{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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.Martha Moulsworth, "The Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth, Widow," in {{cite book | last = Abrams | first = M. H. | title = Norton Anthology of English Literature | edition = 7 | volume = 1 | publisher = Norton | year = 2000 | location = New York | pages = 1552–55, A–30 | isbn = 978-0-393-97566-6}}
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.{{cite book | last = Ricouart | first = Janine | title = Marguerite Duras Lives On | publisher = UP of America | year = 1998 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=EHtcAAAAMAAJ&q=The+Search+for+an+Authentic+Voice:+Helene+Cixous+and+Marguerite+Duras | isbn = 978-0-7618-1206-7}}
Selected works
- {{Cite book |last=Wiedemann |first=Barbara |title=Desert Meditations |publisher=Finishing Line Press |year=2018 |isbn=978-1-63534-440-0}}
- {{Cite book |last=Wiedemann |first=Barbara |title=The Death of a Pope and Other Poems |publisher=Finishing Line Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-62229-318-6}}
- {{Cite book |last=Wiedemann |first=Barbara |title=Sometime in October |publisher=Finishing Line Press |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-59924677-2}}
- {{cite book
| last = Wiedemann
| first = Barbara
| title = Half-Life of Love
| publisher = Finishing Line Press
| year = 2008
| isbn = 978-1-59924-144-9}} (poetry).Reviewed in {{cite web
| last = Latham
| first = Irene
| title = Rev. of Barbara Wiedemann, Half-Life of Love
| work = Alabama Writers' Forum
| date = September 2008
| url = http://www.writersforum.org/news_and_reviews/review_archives.html/article/2008/09/05/half-life-of-love
| access-date = 2016-03-28}}
- {{cite book
| last = Wiedemann
| first = Barbara
| title = Josephine Herbst's Short Fiction: A Window to Her Life and Times
| publisher = Susquehanna UP
| year = 1998
| url = https://archive.org/details/josephineherbsts0000wied
| isbn = 978-1-57591-007-9
| url-access = registration
}} (monograph).
- {{cite book
| last = Evans
| first = Robert C.
| author2 = Anne Little
| author3 = Barbara Wiedemann
| title = Short Fiction: A Critical Companion
| publisher = Locust Hill Press
| year = 1997
| location = West Cornwall
| url = https://archive.org/details/shortfictioncrit0000evan
| isbn = 978-0-933951-73-0
| url-access = registration
}} (edited collection).
- {{cite book
| last = Evans
| first = Robert C.
|author2=Barbara Wiedemann
| title = "My Name Was Martha": A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem
| publisher = Locust Hill Press
| year = 1993
| location = West-Cornwall
}} (monograph).For reviews of the book, see {{cite journal
| last = Norbrook
| first = David
| title = Rev. of "My Name was Martha": A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem
| journal = Notes and Queries
| volume = 41
| issue = 4
| page = 566
| publisher = Oxford University Press
| location = Oxford
| date = December 1994
| doi = 10.1093/nq/41-4-566a
}} and {{cite journal
| last = Haslem
| first = Lori Schroeder
| title = Rev of "My Name Was Martha": A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem
| journal = Renaissance Quarterly
| volume = 49
| issue = 1
| pages = 170–171
| date = Spring 1996
| doi = 10.2307/2863301
| jstor = 2863301
| s2cid = 164113362
}}
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.barbarawiedemann.com/}}
- {{cite web
| last = Evans
| first = Robert C.
|author2=Barbara Wiedemann
| title = 'My Name Was Martha': A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem
| publisher = Locust Hill Press
| year = 1993
| url = http://us.geocities.com/benjonsonjournal/myname.html
| access-date = 2009-04-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090723070514/http://us.geocities.com/benjonsonjournal/myname.html|archive-date=2009-07-23}} Online edition, with minor revisions.
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Category:20th-century American women writers