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Mansplaining Abortion in Alexis Lateef’s ‘Procedure’
Mel Pearce
(illustrator),
2017
single work
essay
criticism
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May vol. 80 no. 2017;'Alexis Lateef’s ‘Procedure’ draws on the conventions of Confessional poetry by women in English – particularly on the influential work of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton – to make a creative statement resisting the masculinist imposition of clinical discourses to the raw subjective experience at the centre of this poem: the speaker’s abortion, and its visceral consequences for her rage, guilt, hurt, and defiance.' (Introduction)
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Mansplaining Abortion in Alexis Lateef’s ‘Procedure’
Mel Pearce
(illustrator),
2017
single work
essay
criticism
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May vol. 80 no. 2017;'Alexis Lateef’s ‘Procedure’ draws on the conventions of Confessional poetry by women in English – particularly on the influential work of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton – to make a creative statement resisting the masculinist imposition of clinical discourses to the raw subjective experience at the centre of this poem: the speaker’s abortion, and its visceral consequences for her rage, guilt, hurt, and defiance.' (Introduction)