Banal sexism aside, I find myself tempted to read <i>Wuthe… - Anne Carson

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Banal sexism aside,
I find myself tempted

to read Wuthering Heights as one thick stacked act of revenge
for all that life withheld from Emily.
But the poetry shows traces of a deeper explanation.

As if anger could be a kind of vocation for some women.
It is a chilly thought.

Anne Carson

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Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, and professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan.

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Three days
(so I hear)
she is without food,
keeps her body
pure of bread, longs to
run herself aground
in a sad secret death.

Is it a god inside you, girl?

You could take the entirety of the common sense of humans and put it in the palm of your hand and still have room for your dick.

to carry one's own door will make a person
clumsy, tired and strange
on the other hand, it may come in useful
if you go places that don't have an obvious way in, like normality
or an obvious way out, like the classic double bind

Banal sexism aside, I find myself tempted to read <i>Wuthering Heights</i> as one thick stacked act of revenge for all that life withheld from Emily… - Anne Carson

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