>As for the former, that
>seems to me to be obvious. At least, there are many people who seem to have
>had no problems at all in reading it that way.
This may be a matter of context. In mine it's a good poem, but not
noticeably subversive in subject or form. Feminism hit New York so long ago
that woman poets here haven't seemed particularly worried about what's
taboo and what isn't for a couple of generations.
Mark
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