The Power We Pretend Not To See - 5
It’s ironic, then, that the metaphor [Attar] constructed for bewilderment is itself “bewildered” in that it simultaneously reveals and denies both the sexual vulnerability of the male body and the trauma that is inherent in how the princess sexually coerces the slave.
The Power We Pretend Not To See - 4
None of the responses I found asked why the chasteness Donne’s speaker craves should require an act of sexual violence in the first place, much less one that is generally understood in the real world to be something men perpetrate almost exclusively against women.
The Power We Pretend Not To See - 3
“If you take those narratives at face value, though, those violations seem less like actual assaults, literal or metaphorical, than a necessary condition for spiritual growth to take place.”
The Power We Pretend Not To See - 2
(Read Part 1 here.)
When I was an undergraduate, a man I looked up to as a teacher and a
The Power We Pretend Not To See - 1
"To me...the error is in thinking that the impulse to self-erasure that the nightingale and the dervish feel so passionately resembles love even remotely."
The Kind Of Courage These Times Call For
not from poets in particular, but from poets no differently than anybody else
Poetry Versus Propaganda: When a Poem Devolves Into Rhetoric
The difference between poetry and rhetoric
is being ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children.
—Audre Lorde, “Power”
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