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4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
At least one poet in the book is a man using a pen name.,
This review is from: The Muse Strikes Back: A Poetic Response by Women to Men (Paperback)
The politics surrounding this book tend to overshadow discussions of its literary merits. The argument usually has it that only women can write powerfully and insightfully from a woman's point of view--a position that ignores the power of Joyce's women characters and O'Connor's male characters, for example. The Muse Strikes Back is often reviewed as a testament to identity politics. But one of the poets in the anthology is a male using a pen name. (I'm not the poet.) When will we come back to the obvious, good sense of an ordinary notion: The power of writing lies in the writers' skill and vision--not in the writers' identity?
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The Muse Strikes Back: A Poetic Response by Women to Men by Katherine McAlpine (Paperback - October 1, 1997)
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