"They are not bits./They are pieces.//And the pieces fit."

[icepixie]

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[vallentine]

I fell in love with Boland's poetry thanks to comps; I'm not a huge poetry fan. And, of course, I knew you were using her work for your thesis. For some reason I'd never thought about the fact that you were unable to relate to a lot of her writing about the female experience. I'm happy for you that you found a poem of hers that speaks to you on a personal level. I find that feeling a kinship to a work elevates the joy and appreciation I have for that work.

Good luck with the thesis writing!

[icepixie]

For some reason I'd never thought about the fact that you were unable to relate to a lot of her writing about the female experience. I'm happy for you that you found a poem of hers that speaks to you on a personal level.

Yeah, it had been hard for some of them--although I could connect personally with her poems about history or poetry or the land, so it wasn't totally an intellectual connection.

Good luck with the thesis writing!

Thanks!

[rowdycamels]

Awwwww! Boland!cookies!

(and I had never seen that "phrase/phrase//distant phrase" usage before... you learn something poemy new every day...)

[icepixie]

(and I had never seen that "phrase/phrase//distant phrase" usage before... you learn something poemy new every day...)

Well, MLAy, anyway... ;)

[rowdycamels]

oh, that zany MLA!