I'd appreciate suggestions for modern American poets whose poetry reveals preoccupation with their own image as individuals; a preoccupation with individual identity in which, for example they extensively use "I";
something reminiscent of Emily Dickinson's and Theodore Roethke's metaphysics and imagination.
Thanks!
Karl Shapiro might be a good candidate. Although many of his poems are in third person, he has several poems that attempt to frame his own identity: "I am an atheist who says his prayers," for example. And the collections Poems of Jew, Bourgeois Poet, and White-Haired Lover. He is well known as an iconoclastic poet, and he is often iconoclastic with regard to his own identity and position.
Anne Sexton
H.D.'s Sea Garden
Denise Levertov maybe with To Stay Alive & Evening Train
Robert Creeley
How far can we go in saying that sexual identity constitutes a very important part of the American poetic landscape?!
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