Marilyn's father was a full bird colonel in the USAF, and her most recent teaching gig was a year of teaching poetry to cadets as West Point. So I hardly think she's a victim of racial, class, or gender opression. In fact her rather charmed progress up the ranks of poetry has been assisted by her race and gender. It's not pc for us white males to write formally, and consequently my most gifted brothers are consigned to backwater state schools and burdened with unconscionable teaching loads. Alicia, two excellent choices from an often uneven poet.
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