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Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother.

Adrienne Rich

Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.
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Becoming Culture Global Mistrust Perceived Place Poetry Subversive Suppose Useful
There being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence
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Being Daily Exile Migration Rending Riddled Search Shared Silence Work
Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity.
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Assumption Drenched Identity Knowledge More Ourselves Refusal Search Women
We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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Count Few Hard People Way
You have to give your art everything you can – I don’t mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.
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Art Everything Poet Poetic Reading Thinking Writing
No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are.
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Believe Consciousness Fathered Insider Inspiring Institution Masculine Really War Woman
What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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Believe Government Represent Same Thing
The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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Choice Examination Multiple Number Pencil Sheet
If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.
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Been Compared Elder Generation Teach Worship
I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.
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Body Instrument Mind relief Shape Trying
War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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Failure Imagination Political Scientific War
Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single “I” or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.
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Coming Imagine Increasingly Poetry Position Theatre Thinking Voice
To become a politics of asking women’s questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women–not a chosen few–shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.
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Culture Demanding Integrity Politics Power Question Respect Validated Women
I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
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Androgyne Child Children Dead Describe Infinite Language Living Lost Mind Name Newborn Noun Surviving Verb
It takes some strength of soul–and not just individual strength, but collective understanding–to resist this void, this nonbeing, into which are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard.
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Demanding Individual Nonbeing Resist Strength Void
In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment – not just in poetry – into the personal.
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Compared Country Need Personal Poetry Retrenchment Support Thinking

Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother.

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Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother.

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