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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.

Adrienne Rich

The marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
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Androcentric Dependent Foundation Leave Marginal Solipsistic Thinking Tunnel Variable Vision
Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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Chamber Desire Feeling Locked Poetry Possibility Recharge Zone
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
“Support” groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people “share” and “heal,” the question, “What for?”, “What now?” is no longer asked.
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Asked Clinch Condition Group Heal Human Kind Longer Milieu Support
The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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Beauty Darkness Let See
The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power.
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Believe Fear Necessity Poetry Power Reason Trying
The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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Arctic Deaadnededness Dead Doors Key Leftism Male Politics Revolution Tolerance Word
It is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.
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Changeable Daily Earth Eternal Indestructible Life Live Spawn Swallow Threating Unstable
No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.
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Air Animal Blazing Budding City Dappled Exuberantly Imagined Passion Scar Sulfuric Sycamores Tree
Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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Life Live Poet Poetry Remember Taught
I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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Back Carbon Coming Head Keep Know
When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
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Carpet Closely Look Multiple Threads Tiny Underside Unseen Weaver
Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in the twilight before sunrise; there are women rising earlier than men and children to break the ice, to start the stove, to put up the pap.
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Blackness Children Dawn Light Running Twilight Women
The assumption that women are a subgroup, that men’s culture is the ‘real’ world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the ‘great’ or ‘liberalizing’ periods of history have been the same for women as for men.
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Assumption Culture Men Patriarchy Real Subgroup Women World
The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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Body Erected Patriarchy Terrain Woman
When men – insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea – have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
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Children Dangerous Embodiment Idea Loving Man Other Patriarchal Themselves

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