Drat! Did it again. Take #2.
Hi Helen,
So . . . content, then?
Where does that leave women writers who make no self-
referential declarations of gender within their work? If this
is not the defining issue, what is?
I'm still no wiser as to why Rich assigned Dickinson a
'masculine voice', particularly since Dickinson's voice was
so uniquely unlike any other poetries of that time. Basically
I'm wondering what Rich decided was *missing* in Dickinson's
work, or insufficiently delineated, in order to disqualify it.
And I'm wondering whether modern women writers can also
be divided, according to Rich's criteria, into female voice and
male voice (which seems absurdly reductionist . . . .)
Andy
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