Ok, Alison, I misunderstood you! Actually, I seem to be affirming what you
say.
Hurricane brains -media splashed to death!
S
>> So, unless I am
>> misreading you, Alison, I think it's pushing it to render the exploration of
>> traditional - albeit ignored - forms as an automatically progressive,
>> liberating act, feminist or otherwise.
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> Stephen, did I ever make that claim? And I most certainly wasn't speaking of
> any gender/metre thing, though that may be something Annie has spoken of; I
> was talking simply about using given forms with certain associations in
> potentially subversive ways. A common enough practice, surely; and one that
> can be bent towards feminist concerns as much as any other. The particular
> poem I posted is, among other things, an essay in form, like all the poems -
> even the freest of free verse ones - that I write, and most certainly
> employs a "high" diction; but it does not use traditional forms, nor is it a
> sonnet.
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> Best
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> Alison Croggon
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> Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
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