I Confess

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Eric Schmaltz’s *I Confess* delves into the complexities of truth-telling in poetry, and the history of technologies designed to produce truth from willing and unwilling subjects, considering what it means to use a device – poetry or polygraph – to draw out one’s most profound feelings and emotions. Exploring the intersection of power, technology, and language, *I Confess* meditates on lie detection and its history, including trials by ordeal and pseudoscientific technologies. The poet then turns to his own personal experiences working with a lie detector and polygraph analyst. Taking himself as the central subject of the book, Schmaltz puts his subjectivity and positionality under scrutiny. The answers to questions such as *What does family mean to you?* and *Can you describe a time when you felt your best?* inspire a range of forms from conventional lyrical verse to list poems to palindromes to visual poems. With an afterword by Orchid Tierney, *I Confess* is a personal, poetic document of truth’s performance under duress.

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