Anatomy of an Injury

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Publication Year:
2018

ISBN-13: 9781771335188

<p>Bringing together the themes of death, of gender and sexuality, the poet creates a speaker whose language and experience, linked from poem to poem, reflects the true complexity of a woman's perspective. Death is a prevalent theme; anxiety, fear and paranoia simmer throughout the poems. Regret, too, is a recurrent theme, as previous experience defines us even by its absence. The societal construct of womanhood, questions of aging, and female stereotypes are opportunities for an analysis of women’s roles and the speaker’s need to subvert modern ideals of femininity and sexuality. The poems often employ satire or self-parody and wry humour to suggest that a woman's understanding of her options in the twenty-first century, in light of the many waves of feminism, is always in flux and always challenging.</p>Bringing together the themes of death, of gender and sexuality, the poet&#10; creates a speaker whose language and experience, linked from poem to &#10;poem, reflects the true complexity of a woman&#8217;s perspective. Death is a &#10;prevalent theme; anxiety, fear and paranoia simmer throughout the poems.&#10; Regret, too, is a recurrent theme, as previous experience defines us &#10;even by its absence. The societal construct of womanhood, questions of &#10;aging, and female stereotypes are opportunities for an analysis of &#10;women&#8217;s roles and the speaker&#8217;s need to subvert modern ideals of &#10;femininity and sexuality. The poems often employ satire or self-parody &#10;and wry humour to suggest that a woman&#8217;s understanding of her options in&#10; the twenty-first century, in light of the many waves of feminism, is &#10;always in flux and always challenging.