The Third Body Claudio V. Cerullo We call these levels the

We call these levels the Medal Rounds

A broad terrace overlooking the James

world-renowned for exorbitant excess

You will get through to the other side

the poem defies simple genre classification by its use of varying themes and tones

The Third Body Claudio V. Cerullo We call these levels theIn The Third Body, the poet, novelist, feminist critic, and theorist H l ne Cixous interweaves a loose narrative line with anecdotes, autobiography, lyricism, myth, dream, fantasy, philosophical insights, and intertextual citations of and conversations with other authors and thinkers. Cixous evokes the relationship of the female narrator and her over, a relationship of alternating presences and absences, separations and rejoinings. This relationship