Beats me how you can laud the "female voice" in Homage to Mistress
Bradstreet. Are you sure you're not confusing voice with subject matter?
What *is* voice anyway? In what ways does the "black voice" worry you in
which the "female voice" does not? Anne Bradstreet certainly deserves
homage and lauds. Cripes, I wouldn't even begin to go into how *she* was
reviewed, introduced, prefaced, sandwiched, mitigated, and excused.
Berryman's coy "Mistress" gives you a flavour of this absurdity. What a fool
he can seem.
Mairead
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Matthew Francis wrote:
> Not only was he the archexponent of the ampersand, he also wrote a hell of a
> good female voice poem, Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, complete with
> childbirth scene. Apparently he interviewed a female friend to get the
> details. This 'female voice' theme is closely related to the owning language
> one, and I don't believe that language is gendered any more than it is
> ownable. But no one took me up on my question in the previous discussion
> about what people think of the black voice in the Dream Songs. I have to
> admit, it has me worried.
>
> Best wishes,
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> Matthew Francis
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
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> Date: 10 July 2000 17:17
> Subject: Re: ampersands
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> >What? No Blake or Berryman?? :-)
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> >Andysand
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