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the tacitly prurient masks behind which European ethnography expressed its fascination with the bodies of the people they were exploiting or hoped to exploit

what a long poem needs is a prosody that will carry it when the writing isn’t especially brilliant

From his point of view, to be seen always in political terms was particularly ironic because his argument with Marxism, indeed with the modern world, was that it had pinned the wrong kind of hope on politics. He had been, as he records in his autobiography, attracted to Marxism as a young man not s…

It's more demotic than "Sleep", more spontaneous and tougher

The Woman Warrior’s tendentiousness is feminist