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Unread 05-03-2019, 10:03 AM
Julie Steiner Julie Steiner is offline
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Thanks for the thoughts on how this situation is different.

Okay, even with my most charitable squinting I can't see much redeeming artistic value in the following menstrual-oral-sex poem, although the author seems to consider it humorously tongue in...well, not exactly cheek:

Keven C. Cole [no, whoops, he seems to be the journal's editor--poet is Damon Norco], "Love Lines"

I suppose this sort of response could be related to so-called cute aggression, which seems to be a similar struggle to regulate overwhelming positive feelings by expressing strong negative feelings; or it could even be analogous to certain types of art vandalism. Dickinson's work can certainly be emotionally overwhelming.

In general, diminishing a female poet's power over him by reducing her, in his own work, to a bangable bimbo might make a heterosexual male poet feel he's in control of the situation.

[Edited to add a #NotAllMen, lest someone feel offended even though it should be obvious that I'm not talking about all heterosexual male poets, and to correct the attribution.]

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