Douglas Clark wrote:
> If you don't accept `biological determinism' then you have to be judged
> by the standard of `the good poem' which is a masculine construct.
>
Frankly, this has got to be one of the most ridiculous statements
I've come across in some time. Have you never heard of social
determinants? History? Patriarchy? Your world must be reassuringly
simple. And come to that, it is precisely biological determinsism
(among other things) that has underpinned patriarchy and sexism for
centuries, if not millenia.
"Bewildering spring, and by the Auvezere
Poppies and day's eyes in the green email
Rose over us"
"Near Perigord", Ezra Pound
Jon Clay - [[log in to unmask]]
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