Occupation: Poet Birth: May 16, 1929 Death: March 27, 2012
Marriage is lonelier than solitude..
There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity..
The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of a wheel wh….
If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life y….
The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political.
They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of fami….
Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?.
We've learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression. Freud rediscovere….
A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it..
I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see..
TV has created a kind of false collectivity..
One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditio….
What kind of beast would turn its life into words?.
I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch.
When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever..
The women's movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never ….
Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chap….
To do something very common, in my own way..
Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historica….
Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother ... when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself..
Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclea….