Feminist poet Adrienne Rich has died

[Nyac]

It's heartbreaking now that we're losing so many of our sisters from the Second Wave:

latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2012/03/adrienne-rich.html

We still have their work however. That can stay with us.

have just ordered, 'of woman born' and a couple of poem collections.

about to read compulsory heterosexuality - thanks to whoever linked it.

RIP adrienne rich - you earnt the right.

ok so having read that essay this is what she inspired me to write:

I am One
of a very long line
of Women
who got Out.

I am not alone
but the latest in the line
Separated
merely by time.

I have no peers-
strange but true.
One by one they have fallen
but I have always slipped through.

The butterfly collectors
failed
my wings will be
pin Free

this uncolonised land
is little known
a Quiet Resistance
expects no applause-
only to survive,
intact
and call itSelf
Home.

I am One
of a very long line,
of Women
who got Out.

first draft and i'm no poet laureate obviously but thought i'd share it. seems fitting to offer a poem for the death of a poet.

I've just read Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence and came here to link to it - only to discover (of course) that I've been beaten to it. It's an amazing piece of writing and I want to read it over and over again.

I LOVE your poem SaF. It is beautiful and perfectly captures the sense of Rich's essay: 'the history of women who as witches, femmes seules, marriage resisters, spinsters, autonomous widows, and/or lesbians who have managed on varying levels not to collaborate'.

thank you - i'll call it In Memory of Adrienne Rich.

we should all write one inspired by her and have a collection. that essay is great actually for making visible all of the resistance there has been albeit not noisy.

she was active and inspirational,v sad