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"'If we have the habit of freedom and the courage to write exactly as we think, ' as Woolf puts it in A Room of One's Own, writing like a woman simply means writing like what one actually is, in sickness and health, richer and poorer, belly and bowels, the consonants and the vowels too.
We may have a general sense that women poets are more likely than men, at the present time, to write in detail about their bodies; to take power relationships as a theme; to want to speak with a strong rather than a subdued voice; are less likely to seek distance, more likely to seek intimacy, in poetic tone.
But generalization would be foolish here. 'Woman poet, ' like 'American poet' or 'French poet' or 'Russian poet, ' allows--even insists on--diversity, while implying something valuable in common, some shared language and life, of tremendous importance to the poet and the poet's readers." --Alicia Ostriker
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:158 pages
- Publisher:The University of Michigan Press
- Publication Date:28/02/1983
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- ISBN:9780472063475
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:158 pages
- Publisher:The University of Michigan Press
- Publication Date:28/02/1983
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- ISBN:9780472063475
