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Satan Says by Sharon Olds
4.0

Utterly ferocious. A gory lyric of womanly actualization that challenges typical attitudes regarding motherhood, childhood, sex, etc. The titular poem surprises me every time in its empathy for its victims and its treatise on the limitations of the confessional poem as a site of evisceration.