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On Denise Riley
The LRB Podcast
Casting a Male Voice in the Opening of the Poem
I wondered if casting that male voice in the opening of the poem was almost a way of trying to make the reader think through what it meant. She casts herself as echo, you know, counterpart to Narcissus. And so then she comes to this juncture in her life where she really does have to take on an orific persona. In our post-enchantment times we could say that's language, right, rather than the muses. But it amounts to the same thing. It's a spring head. It's also goes back to springs, Castellian springs, the spring head of myth.
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