THE FEMALE GAZE

Diane Edison

Alice Neel

Reviewing The Female Gaze is too difficult. I have only my male gaze. And so I gaze mutely at self-portraits, some fierce as Diane Edison.  Other painters, such as Alice Neel, gaze at women pregnant with the eyes of the future.

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ELEGY FOR A CENTURY OF AIDS

Although the Germans in their wars
shot my uncle and grandfather

and the Holocaust and Vietnam perturb,
AIDS kills my friends:

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