Robin: The Arras text of Brady's "White Wish" can be found at
<http://www.geocities.com/arras_online/issue1.htm>. The poem
you quote in the early version starts:
Raped by repetitive indeterminacy, by which the empty sac
of my body was tossed again and again
into the air, I gathered up the rags throwing them into the furnace.
--interesting to note the change of pronoun from "I" to "she" in the final
version. -- Strikes me that some of the comments about the rhetoric of
Brady's book might suggest comparison with Denise Riley's work, & with the
critical response to it (Keery & Wilkinson). (I also think of DR's "Milk
Ink" poem, her critique of corporeally based concepts of feminist writing.)
How do you take the pronoun split in the book (the example above is a good
starting-point)?--the presence of both "she" and "I" in poems in a way I
find challenging.
all best --N
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