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We begin this week with the lesbian love poetry of Marilyn Hacker and Gertrude Stein, and end it with Monique Truong's novel, The Book of Salt. What were your reactions to the poems, and to the differences between them? What connections do you see between Stein's poetry and the fictional story of her cook's life? What sense (in the context of this class, and the questions it's asking) are you making of the novel? (For instance:) What role might the representation of taste--and sensation more generally--play in your understanding of feminism?