I guess we disagree.
Mark
At 04:24 AM 2/5/2001 -0000, you wrote:
>Mark Weiss:
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>>The revolt against the rational in poetry in favor of "the subconscious" is
>>a cyclical phenomenon.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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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