Hi Sally,
A classy poem! I like the humour of a poem with sex in its title that ends
with eating dinner in bed!
I've been thinking about:
"Professors listen without a blush.
Entrust the language of animals to words,
or flush words out of the mouths of animals."
and wonder if it's the professors who entrust the language of animals... If
it is should these three lines be one sentence? If the Professors are linked
to the previous lines then how am I to approach the two lines: "Entrust the
language... (to) ... mouths of animals"?
I know (believe) that full stops and commas can work to different rules in
poems than in prose but I'm not sure how to cope with this...
But, overall, each time I read it I'm struck by some other phrase than one I
enjoyed the previous time. It's a well balanced poem, full of insights,
things that make me chuckle, all the way through.
Bob
>From: Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New sub: "Poetry and Sexuality"
>Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 22:14:50 +0100
>
>"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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