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Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America QUOTES

Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America QUOTES

1 " With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission. "

― Alicia Suskin Ostriker , Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America

2 " To Wallace Stevens' post-Nietzschean formula 'God and the imagination are one,' these women poets would add a crucial third element: God and the imagination and my body are one. "

― Alicia Suskin Ostriker , Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America

3 " The appropriation of the creativity-procreativity metaphor by women is a conscious challenge to traditional poetics and beyond that to traditional metaphysics, for the gynocentric vision is not that Logos condescends to incarnate itself, but that Flesh becomes Word. "

― Alicia Suskin Ostriker , Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America