Roxy

British poet Gavin Selerie's "Roxy" -- the name a diminutive of Roxana, Roxolana, Roxena, type-names which denote a sultry, ambitious woman, originally an oriental queen -- is a kaleidoscope of female presences, filtered through a male consciousness. She is a film star, an oriental or Egyptian queen, a romance novelist, a fashion model, an office worker, a sweatshop seamstress, a night-club hostess. She is a hedonist and a puritan. Such types emerge and disappear in a continual process of redefinition.