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Diving Into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 by Adrienne Rich
5.0
night after night
awake in prison, my mind
licked at the mattress like a flame
till the cellblock went up roaring
Thoreau setting fire to the woods
Every act of becoming conscious
(It says here in this book)
Is an unnatural act
These are poems of intelligence, hopelessness, and stunning beauty. They ask questions, scatter answers, and admit they do not know. Any woman frustrated by the lonely way of things, the way she gives or has given what has been demanded of her, will find a companion in these verses.
awake in prison, my mind
licked at the mattress like a flame
till the cellblock went up roaring
Thoreau setting fire to the woods
Every act of becoming conscious
(It says here in this book)
Is an unnatural act
These are poems of intelligence, hopelessness, and stunning beauty. They ask questions, scatter answers, and admit they do not know. Any woman frustrated by the lonely way of things, the way she gives or has given what has been demanded of her, will find a companion in these verses.