Thanks so much, Doug, and thanks to Richard, Ken and Bridget as well for
kind comments--
I guess I want to say that I don't see myself lining up with Andrea
Dworkin on all this, or, probably, with Bunny Patti either. Maybe some
miscegenated mix of the two. I always thought Dworkin was a secret
pornographer.
What I remember about Long Island is boys brandishing switchblades on
the schoolbus. Edie Falco of the Sopranos grew up there and says that
made it easy to slip into Carmela. Which she does brilliantly.
Rachel
> Loved the poem, as it has the usual cutting wit I associate with your
> work, Rachel.
>
> Also intrigued by the discussion it caused.
>
> The Playboy Philosophy was a long time ago, when I was young,
> & as far
> as I know (but then I haven't seen the mag for years, & his daughter
> has long been the editor in chief) is long past its Best Buy
> date, & he
> hasn't written any addenda for years, perhaps decades -- gee, he is
> rather, um, old now, isn't he?
>
> Doug
> On 2-Jul-05, at 5:23 AM, Rachel Loden wrote:
>
> > If you're so inclined, "Miss October" is at Poetry Daily today and
> > afterwards for a year in the archives.
> >
> > http://www.poems.com/today.htm
> >
> > (Apologies to anyone who's getting this announcement more
> than once. .
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Rachel Loden
> > The Richard Nixon Snow Globe:
> > http://www.wildhoneypress.com/BOOKS/RNSG.htm
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> >
> Douglas Barbour
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>
> -- bring lust into the library
> or it is hell.
> Lisa Robertson
>
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