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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 > > >