Adrienne Rich has died
Adrienne Rich has died
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#1Adrienne Rich has died
Posted: 3/28/12 at 5:23pm
Selected for the National Medal for the Arts in 1997, the highest award given to artists, Rich refused it.
“The radical disparities of wealth and power in America are widening at a devastating rate,” she wrote in a letter addressed to then-President Clinton. “A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.”
She walked the walk.
Rest in peace
#2Adrienne Rich has died
Posted: 3/28/12 at 5:36pm
Who?
#2Adrienne Rich has died
Posted: 3/28/12 at 5:42pm
She was a great poet. It would not be a waste of your time to know her.
'What Kind of Times Are These' read by Adrienne Rich
#3Adrienne Rich has died
Posted: 3/28/12 at 5:48pm
What Kind of Times Are These
BY ADRIENNE RICH
There's a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphill
and the old revolutionary road breaks off into shadows
near a meeting-house abandoned by the persecuted
who disappeared into those shadows.
I've walked there picking mushrooms at the edge of dread, but don't be fooled
this isn't a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here,
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.
I won't tell you where the place is, the dark mesh of the woods
meeting the unmarked strip of light—
ghost-ridden crossroads, leafmold paradise:
I know already who wants to buy it, sell it, make it disappear.
And I won't tell you where it is, so why do I tell you
anything? Because you still listen, because in times like these
to have you listen at all, it's necessary
to talk about trees.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#4Adrienne Rich has died
Posted: 3/28/12 at 5:51pmI just don't know how she suddenly was 82.
#5Adrienne Rich has died
Posted: 3/28/12 at 6:04pm
No, I know who she is. I've just never heard of her. I mean, like, who is she, really?
Anyway, R.I.P.
#6Adrienne Rich has died
Posted: 3/28/12 at 9:46pm
A true American original.
RIP
#7Adrienne Rich has died
Posted: 3/29/12 at 7:52amI can't stop laughing at every other article/obit referring to her as "seminal" or "canonical." She would hate that.
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#8Adrienne Rich has died
Posted: 3/29/12 at 8:51amSeriously, AC. Her favorite poems were the ones that weren't considered cannon and she constantly tried to promote work that was ignored by mainstream literary criticism. She was also a lovely woman willing to do readings at smaller public colleges and universities for nowhere near her official asking fee.
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#9Adrienne Rich has died
Posted: 3/29/12 at 9:15am
From Poets and Writers she reads the poem that Pal Joey posted
http://www.pw.org/content/adrienne_rich
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#10Adrienne Rich has died
Posted: 3/29/12 at 10:23amI love the way she read her poems. Hearing her read them made me want to write well Made me feel differently about my own voice. I think many people felt that way.
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