READING FROM BEHIND: ANAL EROTICISM IN DELMIRA AGUSTINI'S "EL INTRUSO"

[...]when this straight couple thinks about "nonreproductive eroticism," they find that they can only talk with Berlant and Warner, "you're the only people we can talk to about this; to all of our straight friends this [a vibrator] would make us perverts" (564). In other words, this reading does not disrupt nor does it displace the erotic symbolic order of the poem, which is to say, by shifting attention towards the "cerradura," the poem does not surrender its eroticism. [...]the poem is able to "breakup [...] the erotic monopoly traditionally held by the genitals" (Saint Foucault 88), especially when we shift our attention away from the phallogocentric contexts of the poem and towards the "cerradura." To focus our readings on the phallogocentric logic of the poem does a disservice to other possible readings and other possible sites of pleasure. [...]to focus on the phallus negates the sadomasochist potential of the poem, especially when we accept the Foucauldian argument that sadomasochism breaks up "the erotic monopoly traditionally held by the genitals" (Halperin, Saint Foucault 88). Fisting subverts the phallic economy and allows for, once again, a queerer reading of Agustini's "most anthologized" (Brown 197) poem. [...]we should recognize that this reading correlates with Brown's argument about the sadomasochistic thematics of the poem, but this vision is chiefly Foucauldian because it challenges the "erotic monopoly of the genitals" (Halperin, Saint Foucault 88).