I'm glad for a trip-delayed affirmation of Marjorie's gendering of current
Language Poetry practicitioners from Cris, though it chokes up an odd
reaction: there was no female confirmation of this message (I think).
Indeed aside from the occasional two cents from Marjorie and Karlien,
neither _regular_ contributors to this forum, there's a striking absence on
this list, which no one had the self-irony to notice even in debates about
the politics of marketing lectures and readings: the women won't come, it
seems, even to this electronic party, and if so not loudly (myself
included). I have no idea why. Certainly the reports on women poets,
though not by _themselves_, are useful and not insignificant in
approaching some gender polity. They don't replace the real thing,
nonetheless, which is why the debate about gendering writing seems so
artificial and _corrected_ at this location. Neither do I offer myself as a
candidate lecturer. So without advice or diagnosis I pay my lip service
back.
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