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The Rape Poems

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As a poet who has experienced her own traumas, I turned to this book to see how Driscoll would depict hers. I found the experience entirely moving. This poet's verse is captivating. Reading the poems, I felt like I was in a trance. Her words kept repeating in my head afterwords. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who has experienced a trauma like rape, because Frances Driscoll has the words that are so difficult for some to find. I would recommend this book to any poet who deals with real subjects. This is a truly amazing work of art and power.

These poems by Frances Driscoll form an epic story of survival. It takes the simple Madison Avenue sttory of what heroism looks like and delves into what it means to survive by honestly depicting what it TAKES to survive rape, and how, in doing so, one gains a lot but also has lost a lot. A courageous self-examination.

Once I started the book, I couldn't put it down. Situations are detailed, specific, and the discomfort or uneasiness felt:

"The physician specifically trained for such occasions, examines me naked late the next afternoon, inch by careful inch, slowly touching me slowly everywhere slowly.... He remarks upon raw skin, bruises. Keeps finding bruise after bruise. I can not connect bruises with what happened and I can not talk anymore....I have already talked with the center director, the policewoman, the center director, the psychologist, the center director. I can not talk anymore. Could I describe the rape for him, he says...."

Throughout the book, Frances Driscoll made sure that the reader understands what happens to a woman who experiences rape; she couldn't have been more effective.

I ordered my book, and it came within a few days, and it arrived in good shape.

Suze Baron

This book is amazing. It allowed me to put words tothe overwhelming feelings of pain and rage. This book is a useful tool in trying to understand our own feelings when they are mirrored back through wonderous poetry.