ABSTRACT
Di Prima’s later work in Loba arguably expands this vision to incorporate more fully the idea of feminist revision of existing discourses. Indeed Di Prima’s “The Practice of Magical Evocation” is an excellent example of feminist appropriation and revision where the poet ironically reverses patriarchal myths about women, such as the female as ductile. Rich brings attention to the diversity of women’s experience in the context of feminist rethinking of patriarchal culture and argues that, unless these lives are also taken into account, feminism will not make much progress. Rich draws attention to the many different lives women lead as an important factor in society’s understanding of womanhood. A politics of revision has been a central objective of the feminist movement from the first few decades of the twentieth century. As early as 1938, Dorothy Richardson notes the significance of making new versions of existing textualities and literary frameworks and structures.
