"Lesbian." For many, heterosexual or homosexual, the word still constricts the throat. 1įour years after … ( Adrienne Rich) published her first book, I read it in almost disbelieving wonder someone my age was writing down my life … I had not known till then how much I had wanted a contemporary and a woman as a speaking voice of life.… 2 … it is the subjects, the conversations, the facts we shy away from, which claim us in the form of writer's block, as mere rhetoric, as hysteria, insomnia, and constriction of the throat. In the following essay, Stimpson traces the development of lesbian and feminist themes throughout Rich's poetic career. " Adrienne Rich and Lesbian/Feminist Poetry." Parnassus 12-13, nos. ADRIENNE RICH: GENERAL COMMENTARY CATHARINE STIMPSON (ESSAY DATE SPRING-SUMMER AND FALL-WINTER 1985)
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |