Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
ADRIENNE RICHI guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however isolate or unheard you may feel, if you have the need to write poetry, are compelled to write it, you go on, whether there is resonance or not.
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Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.
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So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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An honorable human relationship … is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women’s movement, for instance, becoming “support-groups” or therapy groups.
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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow.
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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors. (I make up this strange, angry packet for you, threaded with love.) I think you thought there was no such place for you, and perhaps there was none then.
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