On whose part?
I think all poets get reduced by categorization from time to time. But
that's the need of the categorizer to create an ordered environment that he
or she thinks it's possible to live in and understand. I don't know anyone
who finds woman's experience, certainly not childrearing, in any way
disqualifying.
Perhaps
>I'm smarting slightly at the thought that poems that deal which
>specifically female experiences are by definition cliched and twee, by
>definition buying into an unwanted notion of the merely _feminine_.
>Surely not. That also is an imprisonment.
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>Best wishes
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>Alison
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