Poetry’s system of cultivated sounds was, she grew to feel, a patriarchal racket. Her career staged a revolt against tamed sound. Of this conflict — the attempt to reconcile music and ethics — she founded a perpetually astonishing body of work, filled with battle cries, conversion scenes and illuminating flashes.
Poetry: Adrienne Rich’s Poetry Became Political, but It Remained Rooted in Material Fact by Wayne Koestenbaum.
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