Mark Weiss:
>The revolt against the rational in poetry in favor of "the subconscious" is
>a cyclical phenomenon.
I'm fairly sure Marilyn Hacker is aware of this. As for me, it's been a
long swing in the other direction, and I'd be glad for the curve to return
to reason and lucidity.
It was most clearly enunciated by Jacob, Apollinaire
>and the Surrealists and Dadaists who followed them. Irrationality has never
>been an exclusively female prerogative--virtually that entire crowd was
>male, alas (but not to forget Gertrude Stein), altho variously gendered.
>Hacker, who can't dance, might learn something from them and the scores of
>poets, female and male, who have followed.
Alas, the crowd referred into the poem is most entirely female: Helene
Cixous, Luce Irigaray, Carol Gilligan et al. To be so bold, I'd suggest it
is we who might learn something from Marilyn Hacker, who dances well enough
when it suits her.
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