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  • Lesbian eisgesis is more like it

    That last line especially, Gretchen and NoStar, is not reminiscent of lesbian curiosity (with its potential for arousal), but of feeling ''un-woman-ed'' in the presence of a superior heterosexual specimen, just as a man can feel ''unmanned'' in a parallel presence of his own gender. I've been there and done that, as noted elsewhere. There is no ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 21, 2009

  • So do I...

    I'm getting a little surprised at the reactions to this poem. There's nothing commonplace or ''prosy'' about it. It is narrative poetry. wr ()()
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 21, 2009

  • This is narrative poetry, not narrative prose...

    A great deal is lost, actually -- for once, in such a Tuesday Poem -- by presenting it in a ''prose'' format. This poem has something fundamental in common with biblical Hebrew ''prose'', which many biblical scholars (including many of the author's fellow Jews) realize is a misleading term. Very little in Hebrew Scripture is not poetry, however ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 21, 2009

  • Re: Form follows function

    As many of the Poems Fraysters know, I've often insisted here that form follows function in effective poetry. (''Functionalism: it's not just for architecture anymore!'' :) ) I have to admit that this week's poem passes (in my book) with flying colors on that point. It certainly seems to intend every bit of heavy-handedness that it uses. For all ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 24, 2009