Rebecca
your comments to Dave about 'female desire' lead me back to Phyllis Webb
(especially _Naked Poems_), various translations of Sappho (how important
is her work to contemporary poetics of desire? I have been reading
versions, especially the Mary Barnard edition first published in 1958 for
decades, obviously), & to many other poets in Canada (at least) whose work
has (re)presented such in many different ways.
I don't think I'm going to ever become a hufe Duffy fan, but I do find much
of her work ironically intriguing, & it's intereting that her ironies,
indeed, her comedy, is being neglected in this discussion.
(sorry to be so far behind, but I had no time to get on yesterday)
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
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the way of what fell
the lies
like the petals
falling drop
delicately
Phyllis Webb
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