Consider this a prelude to my Wednesday guest post at First Draft tomorrow.
There are few people on earth I admire more than the small woman in this video. A warrior, growing frailer each year though she may be, Adrienne Rich’s poetry has been, and likely will continue to be, a powerful guiding force for generations (and those yet to come) of women, men, activists, risk takers. Rich read this poem of hers, Transparencies, at a ceremony last year where she and others were honored for being risk takers.
Risk, safety, fear, injury, and courage- of, and by, words and bodies. This is what’s on my mind. Seeya tomorrow.
Filed under: America, Heroes, LGBTQ, Poetry, Politics, Video
STUNNING, Virg. Stunning. listening to her read her poetry, watching her inflections and feeling the passion rumble in her belly, it brings tears to my ears. She’s perfect- exquisite and she is one of the few writers who makes me really think about what it means to be a person of substance.
Thank you for posting this. THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU.