Status Updates From Nightingale

“The rape isn't described in my poem "Philomela": it takes place offstage, recorded years after the event by the character who experienced it. I left out the rape, thinking to reject a reader's voyeurism. But the reader of myths knows what is left out: my silence, then, is not a revision but an invitation to imagine, to remember, this violence for yourself.”

What the hell is this woman saying?

jesus christ how did i read this book in high school