This is a small poetry club that started as a poetry email exchange between two friends. Our goal is to read a poem everyday, and this blog is one way to help keep us accountable. There is only one valid rule in poetry club: there are no rules in poetry club. Read any poem, in any order, with any or no interactions. You decide. We only suggest you read poetry!
31 Aug 2018: "Suggstions from a White Feminist Poet" by Tova Charles
WOW. The crecendos and falls to this poem are miraculous, jarring and hard- harder than punctuation and meaning themselves. She performs the emotion so incredibly well. I wonder if we would have been able to come close in reading this ourselves? It's the poet behind the poem that makes the most sense.
Is the white feminist poet any different than anyone else? I keep thinking about this, we all are similar wants and ambitions. Of course, in America, and most of the world, being white means you have one less obstacle to tackle. I like how the white feminist poet is defensive about not having additional intersectionalities. She knows it's easier for her, but still wants what she wants. I know I'm not supposed to sympathize with the white feminist (and I sympathize with women of color and greater diversities more), but I still do.
WOW. The crecendos and falls to this poem are miraculous, jarring and hard- harder than punctuation and meaning themselves. She performs the emotion so incredibly well. I wonder if we would have been able to come close in reading this ourselves? It's the poet behind the poem that makes the most sense.
ReplyDeleteThis one is for listening, for sure!
ReplyDeleteIs the white feminist poet any different than anyone else? I keep thinking about this, we all are similar wants and ambitions. Of course, in America, and most of the world, being white means you have one less obstacle to tackle. I like how the white feminist poet is defensive about not having additional intersectionalities. She knows it's easier for her, but still wants what she wants. I know I'm not supposed to sympathize with the white feminist (and I sympathize with women of color and greater diversities more), but I still do.