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"New Portuguese Letters was written by three Portuguese women in 1971, including Maria Teresa Horta, whose poems appear in the supplement to issue 25 of The Puritan. The book was first written to intentionally provoke the Portuguese dictatorship’s censors. The authors—known as the “Three Marias”—were put on trial for obscenity, and their struggle became an international cause. 
(...) ... I was surprised that their book had fallen out of print in Portugal for almost two decades, and was not even read in universities. The authors had continued to write, but their association with feminism had not helped their careers. 
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OP: Do you think writing can be either masculine or feminine?

ALA: I don’t think literature has a gender. In this, I disagree with Maria Teresa Horta, who strongly believes [that there is] a feminine writing. I do not believe there is a feminine writing. I think writing is writing. I am a feminist in my citizenship, let’s say, but I do not think that there is a feminine writing or masculine writing. I think there is writing. It is either good or bad.

It is the politics of reception that make it feminine or masculine. So it is criticism, it is literary theory—the grammar under the theory of literature. Those are gendered. And very strongly biased. And discriminating. But poetry itself has no sex, I don’t think. It’s human. And it’s a need of the human people. It’s a way for human beings to connect, as art is.