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In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world.
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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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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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What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.
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Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected – pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.
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