"WOMEN'S POETRY"?
January 2006 issue of Poetry:
"Is there such a thing as "women's poetry"? I hesitate to respond—in some ways the question seems to extend the nasty old habit of imagining women as "other" or inferior. But let me offer a mixed-up answer: no there is not. And yes, in a certain way, there is..."
Meghan O'Rourke
"Is there such a thing as "women's poetry"? I hesitate to respond—in some ways the question seems to extend the nasty old habit of imagining women as "other" or inferior. But let me offer a mixed-up answer: no there is not. And yes, in a certain way, there is..."
Meghan O'Rourke
posted by J.B. Rowell at 6:49 AM
1 Comments:
My immediate response to this excerpt when I saw it on the back cover of the magazine was: there's no "women's poetry," but there's poetry only women can write.
That response didn't change after reading the whole article.
--Suzanne
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