The other question that needs to be addressed is why are the examples
that I have already given being ignored. To give three names I have
already given, Robert Gluck, Dennis Cooper and Sedgwick, who is also a
poet as well as a theorist and teacher.
Is it because they deal with explicitly homosexual themes and as such
are excluded from the categories of lyric and novel which both Alison
and Doug are insisting on as complying with moral law which dictates the
categories and their legitimate use and as such are considered not to be
lyric poets and novel writers.
This is a very real question. I am not using rhetoric here. But since I
have been set up in front of a tribunal by both Doug and Alison and
accused of being in breach of the correct use of the term lyric, to
which I very accurately replied I have nothing to admit, this is a
question of most explicit urgency. Why do both Doug and Alison insist
that I do not have the right to explain what I consider lyric to be and
demand, upholding Kantian moral law in doing so, that I comply with a
categorical standard which assumes as a writer I am heterosexual. Again,
this is a real question. However, since it is more then apparent that I
am denied the right to speak, even after giving examples, then the
situation becomes one that as I see I have the right to both demand an
apology and to cease this discussion.
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