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Adrienne Rich, The Fact of a Door Frame: Poems Selected and New, 1950 - 1984 (1984)
‘My politics is in my body, accruing and expanding with every act of resistance and each of my failures’ (Tear Gas, 1969)
I love this collection - but really only for the works from the late 60s onwards. Rich was obviously a talented writer early on, and her early works are full of allusions to Western poetic traditions. But they are so careful and so hedged.
It is only after she gets angry that Rich gets interesting. Her poetry is perhaps slightly less polished, but much more incisive.
‘My politics is in my body, accruing and expanding with every act of resistance and each of my failures’ (Tear Gas, 1969)
I love this collection - but really only for the works from the late 60s onwards. Rich was obviously a talented writer early on, and her early works are full of allusions to Western poetic traditions. But they are so careful and so hedged.
It is only after she gets angry that Rich gets interesting. Her poetry is perhaps slightly less polished, but much more incisive.
