About a Boob or The Hermeneutics of a Woman’s Body
“Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write your self. Your body must be heard.” — Hélène Cixous
Posts Tagged: simone de beauvoir
The Rumpus Interview with Gerald Stern
There’s a black and white photo in which the poet Stanley Kunitz lovingly holds Gerald Stern’s cheeks in both hands. It’s 1990. They’re looking into one another, and Kunitz says, “You’re the wilderness in American poetry.”
Maud Newton, Simone de Beauvoir, and The Coming of Age
Q: “What does it mean to grow old?”
A: “It can’t be explained quickly, that’s why I wrote a 600-page book to answer this question. But in any case I shall try.”
Maud Newton’s readers translate an interview with Simone de Beauvoir about The Coming of Age.
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