ABSTRACT
To write in the voice of another means to speak for, through and of another’s experience. This powerful act has long been the purview of the poet, whose dramatic and lyric monologues testify to the success of the imagination. To “cross gender” as well-that is, for a woman to write in the voice of a man, or a man in the voice of a woman-complicates the act, as conscious and unconscious issues are brought to bear on the persona and the poem. Here then is an anthology from a new perspective, a place where history, poetry, politics, psychology, sexuality and values collide.
