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Rich, Adrienne (b. 1929)
page: In the mid-1980s, Rich's fusing of the personal and political is poignantly voiced in "In Memoriam: D.K." (1986), her tribute to one of her ablest critics and supporters, David Kalstone: A man walking on the street
feels unwell has felt unwell all week, a little. . . Give me your living hand death moved into you undeclared, unnamed even if sweet, if I could take that hour. Rich mourns this sensitive, invaluable poetic interpreter and teacher who died of AIDS. Sponsor Message. Committed to plumbing her various heritages, Rich's poetry contains depths and breadths of psychological and social meanings that resonate to and from identities, subjectivities, rationalities, and emotions. Rich has, as Olga Broumas notes, "extraordinary powersof perception, eloquence, rhythm, courage, the rare fusion of vision and action, the ability to suggest not only to others but to herself a course of action in the mind and follow it in the next breath in the world," and thus many are "drawn by the mind of [this] woman whose work and life have been an act of becoming conscious against the established order." As Gloria Bowles observed more than a decade ago, Adrienne Rich has time and again exhorted feminist scholars to remain "dedicated to the process of discussion and reformulation," always remaining open to the previously unimaginable possibilities of reconceptualization. | |
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