Abstract
In examining the terms and conditions of female spectatorship, Lorna Crozier’s “Penis Poems” (1988) offer a frank and rhapsodic look at the male body. The poems operate as a challenge to the cultural limitations placed upon women’s visual access to the male body, while Crozier’s dual project of de-mystifying and eroticizing the penis seek to retrieve possibilities for heterosexual female desire. By moving from a critical gaze towards an accepting look, these poems refute the psychoanalytical binary of transcendent phallus and debased penis and insist that the male body can bear the burden of the gaze.
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