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This talk tracks the intimate relationship between representations of the Moon and female pain, pleasure, and perception. From the verses of Margaret Cavendish to the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Mina Loy, Sylvia Plath, and Elizabeth Bishop, the Moon—“the face of the sky,” “a silver Lucifer,” “a fossil virgin”—has offered itself as an emblem of all the exquisite dramas of femininity: birth, love, sex, motherhood, and death.
