Long ago I was reading Mary Daly's Gynocology and the weight of its content had me bouncing off the walls of my little apartment and my exploding braiLong ago I was reading Mary Daly's Gynocology and the weight of its content had me bouncing off the walls of my little apartment and my exploding brain. I inarticulately mentioned this to the dykes next door and one of them said hey have you read this?
Such comfort in her precise and metered rage and grief, her helpless tenderness, her wry and self-doubting devotion to love. The woman who wrote these poems was so clearly living open-eyed in the world Daly described, never denying the relationship between her warm kitchen and the warfare in the street.
Immersing oneself in mundane & horrific truth is changed in every way by companionship, by a fellow witness. I was taking it all in pretty much alone and raising a daughter. Atwood was my companion. I did not need anyone to say it would change, I just needed someone to say yes. i see it too. speak when you are ready - i am speaking now for both of us....more
1974 folks - on the cusp of finding ourselves and each other, books like this helped us find another huge & hidden eddy of our history. & what we have1974 folks - on the cusp of finding ourselves and each other, books like this helped us find another huge & hidden eddy of our history. & what we have learned since is that only knowing that history preserves the voices who made it.
the title is from Muriel Rukeyser: What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open....more
this was one of the first HARDBACKS i ever bought, the year it came out. it was a big deal. and my first Roethke - read so often that sections of it fethis was one of the first HARDBACKS i ever bought, the year it came out. it was a big deal. and my first Roethke - read so often that sections of it feel like a stretched and scattered poem swirling into cohesion. i cannot imagine reading him without meeting the man in these jewels from his notebooks ...more
theoretically poetry is that thing which defies translation, but when the heart is ready to cry with joy or sorrow, a good translation finds its wordltheoretically poetry is that thing which defies translation, but when the heart is ready to cry with joy or sorrow, a good translation finds its wordless mark.
and some poetry archives the history of the heart like music.
it was 1971 or so and i was in love with a poet and he gave me this book by a writer my spanish-teacher dad loved - possibly their only shared value at the time, tho the poet grew to be as catholic and conservative as my dad eventually.
In a way, this is where i went after Mary Oliver. Gluck is in the natural and physical world too. Her v...the light of autumn: you will not be spared.
In a way, this is where i went after Mary Oliver. Gluck is in the natural and physical world too. Her vision is brilliant, dark, fearless. Nature becomes not simply a lover humanity has betrayed, but a mirror of all we refused to let her tell us about consequence within and without an individual human life.
This chapbook was my introduction to Gluck. When i went looking i found the Pulitzer prize winner -The Wild Iris. This woman is amazing....more
"i write from a woman's body." Her life and the passions that shaped it are a revelation - but read the poetry first. This is a physically beautiful b"i write from a woman's body." Her life and the passions that shaped it are a revelation - but read the poetry first. This is a physically beautiful book - an act of loving introduction to a voice we nearly lost.
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From Library Journal Five decades before political correctness became a topic of genteel debate among academics, Rukeyser was raising her poetic voice "to answer the silence of the weak." Her muse demanded that she pay as much attention to the shared, literal world as the world of literature, so, like Whitman, she personalized the public events of her time: the Depression, the Spanish Civil War, the struggles of class and gender ("I hear the singing of the lives of women, / The clear mystery, the offering and pride"). This collection showcases a lifelong effort to deal squarely with large social forces as they rippled through one woman's acute sensibility. Twelve years after her death, the poet's desire to get past "all evasion's wishes" seems no less timely. - Fred Muratori, Cornell Univ. Lib., Ithaca, N.Y. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. ...more
he has been with me for so long i forget sometimes how he sweetened my heart while raging and pleading for us to cease our self-destructive folly, andhe has been with me for so long i forget sometimes how he sweetened my heart while raging and pleading for us to cease our self-destructive folly, and how he modeled the potential of words and letters as graphic elements. this doubleheader is the fastest road to the heart of his heart. as with the truest voices, i am always growing into him.
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