Poems about transvestites

The clear, sharp, sullen eyes full of everything he had never been allowed to be. Carefully you cover your face with a powder that beautifully conceals. I think I have no way of knowing that if I had been born a girl and had grown up a woman I would still have a profession in one of the arts that use words; I might even be a professor and a literary scholar and a cultural critic, doing much of what I do now. In theory, we could sort out three kinds of trans poetry: But I am not sure that I would have become a poet, not sure that I would have had the same motivation to make these odd, embarrassing, risky, intuitive, apparently useless art forms that can stand in for the bodies and faces we have, to eclipse or disguise the literal with figura , with artifice made up of language alone. Rice, whose wife has been watching her transition:. I call on this council and people of conscience to make this happen. But that sense of lostness, or of sudden freedom, might be the point.

A 19th-century photograph of a femminiello , an ancient culture of cross dressing in Naples, Italy. Use Flickriver Badge Creator to create a badge linking to any Flickriver view example: Though the term was coined as late as the s, the phenomenon is not new.