Rebranding Women’s Poetry

Postmodern critique of the "great divide"-the postmodern selfconscious play with pop culture-has had little impact on "the WP label" according to Bryant: "Despite postmodernism's project of calling such hierarchies into question-and the resulting revaluation of women artists and popular culture-responses to women's poetry anthologies can still become mired in the old morass of mass" (179).\n Selecting one poet from either side of the pond, Bryant explores poetry by the current (and first female) British Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, and the American writer known as "Ai." [...]Ai's "The Hitchhiker" and Duffy's better-known poem "Psychopath" portray graphic violence from the point of view of utterly unrepentant and dehumanized male serial murderers.