Yess! Amen!! Thank you!!!

I do not believe the political poem can be written with truth and effect unless the self who writes that poem - a self in which sexuality must be a factor - is seen to be in a radical relation to the ratio of power to powerlessness with which the political poem is so concerned.

I am slow, for instance, to believe that the political poem can be written by a self that is not politicized, even radicalized. Once again I find it hard to accept that a radical self can function authoritatively in the political poem if the sexual self, which is part of it, remains conservative, exclusive and unquestioning of inherited authority.

From Object Lessons: The Life Of The Woman And The Poet In Our Time
Eavan Boland