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Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpre

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"Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do"

- Diane Wakoski

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