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Mermaids in the basementMermaids in the basement

Mermaids in the basement

poems for women

Carolyn Kizer

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In Pro Femina, she writes: "From Sappho to myself, consider the fate of women. / How unworthy to discuss it! Like a noose ... / Juvenal set us apart in denouncing / our vices / Which had grown, in part, from / having been set apart: / Women abused their spouses, / cuckolded them, even plotted / To poison them ..."

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OL Work ID
OL502270W

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PoetryWomenPoetry (poetic works by one author)

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