United States, (1929-2012)
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- 5.
- Ammonia
- carbon dioxide
- carbon monoxide
- methane
- hydrogen sulfide
- : the gasses that rise from urine and feces
- in the pig confinement units known as nurseries
- can eat a metal doorknob off in half a year
- pig-dander
- dust from dry manure
- -lung scar: breath-shortedness an early symptom
- And the fire shall try
- every man’s work : Calle Visión:
- and every woman’s
- if you took the turn-off
- this is your revelation this the source
About the Poet:
Adrienne Cecile Rich, United States, (1929-2012), was a poet, essayist, political activist and feminist. She was called “one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century”, and was credited with bringing “the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse”. During her life, poet and essayist Adrienne Rich was one of America’s foremost public intellectuals.
Rich’s work explored issues of identity, sexuality, and politics; her formally ambitious poetics have reflected her continued search for social justice, her role in the anti-war movement, and her radical feminism. David Zuger, in Poet and Critic said “… a poet of prophetic intensity and ‘visionary anger’ bitterly unable to feel at home in a world “that gives no room / to be what we dreamt of being.” [DES-01/22]