Now, I need to go and look up Addrienne Rich. Her stuff is so powerful, too.
I started with the collection Dream of a Common Language; I think that's included in Fact of a Doorframe which is a larger book. I found that, and the Atwood Power Politics collection to be liberating in ways that would take me many thousands of words, much biographical, and therefore likely boring, to explain.
But with Rich, I find that as my age approached the age at which she wrote different poems, my sense of those poems changes. The first time I read A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far (and I may be misremembering the title, because it's out of the house), it wasn't nearly as strong -- but ten years later, it was a different book.
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Date: 2004-10-19 12:54 pm (UTC)I started with the collection Dream of a Common Language; I think that's included in Fact of a Doorframe which is a larger book. I found that, and the Atwood Power Politics collection to be liberating in ways that would take me many thousands of words, much biographical, and therefore likely boring, to explain.
But with Rich, I find that as my age approached the age at which she wrote different poems, my sense of those poems changes. The first time I read A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far (and I may be misremembering the title, because it's out of the house), it wasn't nearly as strong -- but ten years later, it was a different book.