Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
ADRIENNE RICHIn this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it’s the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice, breath, music, bodily tempo, and the powers of the imagination.
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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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I came to explore the wreck.
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Re-vision — the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present.
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What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope?– You yourself must change it.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
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I define “politics” as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create – not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.
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I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There’s always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.
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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every day … the lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she’s piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own.
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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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