I don't disagree with Duplessis in her piece on Howe (a poet I admire
the hell out of) (& an essay I also admire), but there are many such
battlefields, not all gender-based....
Indeed, Howe is also especially interested in the large 'battlefield'
that is american history as violence...
Doug
On 5-May-06, at 10:46 AM, Edmund Hardy wrote:
> hang on, hang on - obviously the blurb for the masterclass just goes
> over the top, and perhaps those are the questions which frame a more
> interesting discussion once Greer gets there & starts talking -
>
> but isn't there something serious here - Rachel Blau Duplessis on
> Susan Howe:
>
> "her poems are repositories of the language shards left in a
> battlefield over cultural power."
> http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/howe/howe_duplessis.html
>
> Edmund
>
>
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