To be truthful Sally - I'm not sure what you are saying here - and feel
unsure of your tone. Their is a sardonic atmosphere in the bulk of the
piece that seems at odds with the final lines. The poem is quite academic
and abstract which suits the subject matter but I am addicted to imagery and
missed it here.
Interesting though and I would like to hear more about this experience of
yours!
BW
Catherine
>"Poetry and Sexuality"
>
>One afternoon has me astonished.
>Bright-eyed scholars agog in the hall
>of this four-day conference, hi-jackers
>of poets, many female and not all dead,
>eco-poetics, psycho-poetics, the crackers
>of cellular biology and modern science.
>American women churn out f-words
>with the righteousness of a church.
>Professors listen without a blush.
>Entrust the language of animals to words,
>or flush words out of the mouths of animals.
>Traduce academic poetry until it's
>a bonked minefield of >this< experience.
>These delightful women poets to introduce:
>why aren't the lecturers all over them?
>We have all been re-educated
>and poetry has won. I come home replete,
>give up trying to explain; sedated
>by release, eat my dinner in bed.
>
>Sally Evans
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