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>From: [log in to unmask] When >I hear phrases like "female voice" I sniff the same old trap again - and >yes, there it is decorated with love hearts and smelling of lavender - >and at the end is the same old pile of laundry - ... >Poetry surely seeks to destroy that artificial line between "intellect" >and "emotion". It's feeling intelligence or intelligent passion. Katha Pollitt has an excellent essay on this called Gilligan's Island. But since this is a poetry list, let me quote Marilyn Hacker: Then the advocates of Feminitude --with dashes as their only punctuation-- explain that Reason is to be eschewed: in the Female Subconscious lies salvation. Suspiciously like Girlish Ignorance, it weems a rather watery solution. If I can't dance, it's not my revolution. If I can't think about it, I won't dance. --Marilyn Hacker, Graffiti From the Gare St. Manque. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com