Years ago I wrote a poem for Carlos--I was better than 50% of parenting
from the time I joined the household when he was 6 (and still am, I
think)--which was interpreted by a friend as "homosexual." Another poem was
published as a broadside and is available from one of the bookstores on
bibliophile as "of homerotic interest." I think this is both funny and sad.
The funny is obvious, the sad is that I would have thought that it was
obvious I was talking about a child that I loved. Apparently for some that
possibility isn't available.
Mark
>I think we should be extremely wary of that definition of "feminine"
>which seeks to infantilise us, or to define us solely by our biological
>female functions. It's rather close to "don't bother your pretty head
>with that grownup stuff", which is of course the velvet glove on the fist
>of domestic violence. And we should be aware, also, of the limitations
>there have been on men: on another list, a couple of male poets are
>discussing how domesticity, when written about by men, has also been
>trivialised by critics as "unimportant".
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>Best
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>Alison
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