The fifties poems were praised by men and, later, deprecated by Rich, in much the same terms; her "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" finds a new candor but hews to the period, confessional style.
However, when Molko stops posturing and writes candidly, he shows he could yet pen a great late-period confessional.
In part, he admits, this was the result of listening again to a lot of his singer-songwriter contemporaries from that period, notably the California confessional crew of Carole King, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell and their friends.
It's as if the terrible, violent confessional strife in the early modern period in Europe, the bloody drawn-out wars between the Christian sects, was removed to the intellectual arena in the Enlightenment and became a set of more general philosophical controversies.
The period also saw alternative confessional female singer-songwriters.
Through the splashes of bright colors, the touches of local color, and the reverse telescope of distant memory and period nostalgia, "Wonder Wheel" virtually shrieks with confessional anguish and is scarred with indelible regret.
The estrangement of theology and natural science in the modern period was a complex development related to confessional controversies and wars in the 16th and 17th centuries and philosophical perspectives in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In his confessional press conference, Riis admitted to taking cortisone over a period of six years.
In his confessional piece of 1958, he writes that this was the period when he became Peter Roger Oboe — "Army alphabetical code for P.R.O. or Public Relations Officer... a label for a new and weird identity that, more or less against my inclinations, I had been forced to assume".
In that interim period, Ames has gone from writing self-effacing confessional columns to writing a hit HBO show, Bored to Death, with some boxing and graphic novel writing in between.
