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How I met Adrienne Rich

by this VioletDreamer finds that "Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God" — 1 year ago

i had the wonderful wonderful marvelous chance to take a “Masters Class’ with her at UC. It blew my mind to sit next to one of premiere voices of 20th century American Poetry. What i remember most from the class was her emphasizing the necessity of “bringing the world into our poems”, and not only write from a self-absorbed , tunnel-vision stance.

She was, phyisically, a petite, frail, tiny little bird who reminded me of my grandmother. But from her mind, A Force of Nature….

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by mzdalloway — 1 year ago

On some levels, you know, those levels that only get reached once every few years, I already have met her. She is enlightenment to the core, not glossed over. I can only take her in small pieces at a time; she always makes me cry.

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by Sheana — 1 year ago

I was working in tech services at my undergrad when Adrienne came to give a reading. I didn’t speak much because I was so bashful, but I helped her get her lavalier mic set up and explained a little about the set-up, and she was very sweet. I heard some of her reading and it was, of course, amazing.

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by HobokenMartha — 2 years ago

I interviewed her when I was an undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh in the 1970s. She was funny and smart and…unpretentious. She talked about her sons a lot, and she wore a gorgeous leather jacket, and because of her disability (one leg drags), it meant we all had to walk more slowly than usually as we went to the restaurant to eat with her. Later on, she read from “On Women and Lying,” and it made my skin light up. She was, she is a visionary.

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