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I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud.
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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants.
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The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power.
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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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