I think I have been in a writer's blank since completing my doctorate two years ago now.  Incredible that so much time has past.  I have spent the time writing the work up in two books.  One just published, Earthing the Cosmic Queen which is on relevance theory and the Song of Songs.  And, soon my doctoral work will be in press under the title Jouissance which really was as close as I could get to summing the poetry up in one word.

The question facing me now is what next?  There is so much more to do in that space between biblical literature and critical theory, and in the space between critical theory and poetic knowledge.  I am drawn to two things:  the way life and death are encountered in the biblical text -- and in this the life-death discourses of Cixous and Derrida still hold so much possibility, and the way madness interrupts the biblical text, or perhaps in fact produces it.

I am resisting leaving the Song of Songs.  I think that burning poetry has marked me forever.  Its hard to leave it.  And, perhaps I won't leave it, and won't leave Hélène Cixous when there seems to be so much more air there.