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Adrienne Rich

The author of numerous collections of poetry, Adrienne Rich's poetry examines such things as women's role in society, racism, politics, and war...
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	FURTHER READING


		Poems about Language
		Etymological Dirge by Heather McHugh

		Having Words by Alfred Corn

		I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone by Rainer Maria Rilke

		please advise stop [I was dragging a ladder slowly over stones stop] by Rusty Morrison

		Poem by James Schuyler

		Primitive State [excerpt] by Anselm Berrigan

		The Composition of the Text by Adriano Spatola

		The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart by Jack Gilbert

		Water Music by Robert Creeley

		What Is an Epigram? by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

		Yes by Denise Duhamel

		Poems of Queer Experience
		Abandonment Under the Walnut Tree by D. A. Powell

		Antique by Arthur Rimbaud

		Blue by May Swenson

		Calamus [In Paths Untrodden] by Walt Whitman

		elegy for kari edwards by Julian T. Brolaski

		Elegy in Joy [excerpt] by Muriel Rukeyser

		He would not stay for me, and who can wonder by A. E. Housman

		Langston Blue by Jericho Brown

		Lullaby by W. H. Auden

		Queer by Frank Bidart

		Starlight by William Meredith

		syntax by Maureen N. McLane

		The Embrace by Mark Doty

		The Hug by Thom Gunn

		The Next Table by C. P. Cavafy

		Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more] by Marilyn Hacker

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Tonight No Poetry Will Serve
by Adrienne Rich

Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious of the unslept unsleeping elsewhere Tonight I think no poetry will serve Syntax of rendition: verb pilots the plane adverb modifies action verb force-feeds noun submerges the subject noun is choking verb disgraced goes on doing now diagram the sentence 2007


From Tonight No Poetry Will Serve, published by W.W. Norton. Copyright © 2011 by Adrienne Rich. Used by permission of the publisher. All rights reserved.

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