To be sure we'd have to check for splinters.
Mark
At 09:56 PM 5/5/2006, you wrote:
>You're sure they weren't just trying to find light to read their books by?
>
>P
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to
> > poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> > Behalf Of Joanna Boulter
> > Sent: 05 May 2006 22:38
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Poetry as Male Display
> >
> > A woman poet once told me she'd noticed that the male of the
> > species, when giving a reading, assumed a stance with the
> > pelvis thrust forward. Only she put it a little less
> > delicately. I've been observing since, and some of them definitely do.
> >
> > joanna
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 10:12 PM
> > Subject: Re: Poetry as Male Display
> >
> >
> > > The male poet's courtship display: we lift our tail
> > feathers, puff out our
> > > chests and circle the female poet, who expresses interest
> > by feigning
> > > confusion and attempting to run for the exit. Courtship
> > success rate is so
> > > low that the species is constantly threatened with extinction.
> > >
> > >
> > > At 04:51 PM 5/5/2006, you wrote:
> > >>>She's plain wrong. But where would be the hermeneutic fun
> > in that? I'd
> > >>>point
> > >>>to what Walter Ong has to say about the feminisation of
> > discourse in the
> > >>>early-modern period [in Orality & Literacy]. It may not be
> > on display,
> > >>>but
> > >>>it is pretty fundamental in its importance.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>I'm so glad you said that - whoever you are?!
> > >>
> > >>'She's plain wrong'
> > >>
> > >>Lovely.
> > >>
> > >>Tina
> > >
> >
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