>i sometimes feel our self-censorship is what makes our poetry acceptable
>- we write towards a certain consensus in order to be considered poets
>in a certain place. it may be that in so doing we lumber ourselves with
>notions which cramp our poetry and force us, in effect, to become ever
>more distant from the experience which moves us.
Writing poetry as a woman is an interesting exercise in contemplating and
- one hopes - overcoming self censorship. However, the "we" begs a lot
of questions, as well as "acceptance" - by whom? for whom? How can
anyone control their "acceptance" by other people?
I can't say, personally, that I've ever cared much about "consensus" when
writing poems. And there are many kinds of censorship: the kind which
glosses or erases actual complexities is perhaps the most common, and
least easy to see. But we all write in the dark.
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