1. 14:14 3rd Apr 2012

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    Tags: Adrienne RichCathy Park Hongpoetrythe skies are full of themlit

    Her poetry sears with a diamond-cut certainty: “Did you think I was talking about my life?/I was trying to drive a tradition up against the wall” or “A woman in the shape of a monster/a monster in the shape of a woman/the skies are full of them.” She does not hesitate even when she reaches the unknowable. Intention burns in every line of her poems. But it doesn’t mean that her words are reducible or inflexible in her anger. There is certainty in her uncertainty, resolve in her ambivalence.
    — From Cathy Park Hong’s “Memories and Thoughts on Adrienne Rich”
     
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