Adrienne Rich

Poems: Selected and New, 1950-1974

Clara Gauthier

The moment when a feeling enters the body 

of a woman trying to translate pulsations 

into images     for the relief of the body

I felt my body slipping through/the fingers of its mind. 

Since I was more than a child/trying on a thousand faces/I have wanted one thing: to know/ simply as I know my name/at any given moment, where I stand.

The human rose to haunt us everywhere/ raw, flawed, and asking more than we could bear. 

kept coming back to this book over months and finally finished it, a great collection of rich’s works from these 15 years. made me cry in the laundromat

Poems: Selected and New, 1950-1974

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