Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yours — Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
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Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yourself responsible for whatever the status quo does to you.

— Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
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