Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Great Regulars: It presents the woman not just as a woman

but as a composite for the ways that women suffer the debilitation of wartime. She represents the domestic, yes, but in a larger context she becomes the state itself, awaiting news about the fate of the nation.

Women [by Yannis Ritsos]

from David Biespiel: The Oregonian: Poetry

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