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I would like to tell you a simple story. This story comes to me by way of Robert Bly, the American poet. Writers, he says, need to preserve their frogskins. Frog-skins, not foreskins; though writing can be something of a circumcision when forced into categories — some-thing between public ritual and private pain. To counteract this phallocentrism let me offer you the metaphor of writing as woman, not only as the re-pressed, but as the source. (Introduction)
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'Pomeroy' : A Dialectic of Risk
2008
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— Appears in: Brian Castro's Fiction : The Seductive Play of Language 2008; (p. 33-48)
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'Pomeroy' : A Dialectic of Risk
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Brian Castro's Fiction : The Seductive Play of Language 2008; (p. 33-48)
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Necessary Idiocy and the Idea of Freedom
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Necessary Idiocy and the Idea of Freedom
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