A pact between poets of every generation has always existed, but the question lingers about who is permitted to be complicit in this pact. Allison Grimaldi Donahue investigates the nature of the pact between poets, the tension between anxiety and influence, and how female poets have been excluded and included, at varying historical points, in this chain of relationships. Through a poetic and theoretical performance and via an artist’s book published for the occasion, Grimaldi Donahue makes space for the female voices associated respectively with Pound and Pasolini and interrogates her own position as female and poet.
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