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(More customer reviews)The politics surrounding this book tend to overshadow discussions of its literary merits. The argument usually has it that only women can write powerfully and insightfully from a woman's point of view--a position that ignores the power of Joyce's women characters and O'Connor's male characters, for example. The Muse Strikes Back is often reviewed as a testament to identity politics. But one of the poets in the anthology is a male using a pen name. (I'm not the poet.) When will we come back to the obvious, good sense of an ordinary notion: The power of writing lies in the writers' skill and vision--not in the writers' identity?
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