When the bough breaks: Poetry on abortion
Abstract
Collecting for the first time a significant number of poems written about the experience of abortion, this work provides an initial history and extended study of the poetry on abortion. It takes a formalist approach, closely examining the paradoxical terminology, imagery, and elegiac conventions found in such poetry. This study concludes that because these poems are paradoxical rather than didactic, they provide a valuable site where readers with differing ideologies can analyze and discuss the issue of abortion.
This paper has been withdrawn.