(I meant to do a follow-up post about the more problematic aspects of the collection itself, but didn't get round to it, so I'm gald you have).
I think there is a very strong 'male' slant to the book - it might have been called "Poems, Many Humorous in Some Way, About Men Fucking", and in fact I can recall only one poem about lesbians. The latter was a lack I didn't notice when I first read the book, because I had not then coem across lesbianism as a concept, and as I did remember there being poems by and about gay men, I later assumed that there were probably equivalent ones for women, I just didn't remember them because I _had_ heard of male homosexuality at the time.
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I think there is a very strong 'male' slant to the book - it might have been called "Poems, Many Humorous in Some Way, About Men Fucking", and in fact I can recall only one poem about lesbians. The latter was a lack I didn't notice when I first read the book, because I had not then coem across lesbianism as a concept, and as I did remember there being poems by and about gay men, I later assumed that there were probably equivalent ones for women, I just didn't remember them because I _had_ heard of male homosexuality at the time.