You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
And yet, protest it if we will,Some corner of the mind retainsThe medieval man, who stillKeeps watch upon those starry skeinsAnd drives us out of doors at nightTo gaze at anagrams of light.
Women's art though created in solitude wells up out of community. There is clearly both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused and an explosion of creative energy bursting through the...
The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim uswhich will we claimhow will we go on livinghow will we touch, what will we knowwhat will we say to each other.
When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves.
The problem, unstated until now, is how to live in a damaged body in a world where pain is meant to be gagged uncured ungrieved over. The problem is to connect, without hysteria, the pain of anyone's...