Susan, I'm thinking of a male reviewer who criticized Rhina P. Espaillat's poems for their "modernist smallness," rather than going on to tackle "greater things." The reviewer listed her poems' domestic subjects and sighed, as if it was self-explanatory that poems "about" such mundane things couldn't possibly be wrestling with Big Philosophical Questions.
What a dork.
Last edited by Julie Steiner; 10-20-2015 at 03:35 PM.
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