Adrienne Rich

‘What Kind of Times are These?’ by Adrienne Rich, filmed at Dodge.
“I am an instrument in the shape of a woman trying to translate pulsations into images for the relief of the body and the reconstruction of the mind.”

In this interview at ChilePoesía in 2001 she says, “It’s in the writing of a poem you find out what you are not saying.” “There are other ways of writing than those that you have learned to use.”
Tonight no poetry will serve.
Indomitable, almost.
Like Stein, she and her influence and inspiration may reappear so long as we remember or wish to.

Last night in Tree’s dead poet reading Gertrude Stein introduced herself in a visit, telling of her life, his first meeting of Alice, reciting her Rose after a century, and giving a red rose to she who invited her.