Poetry
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Adrienne Rich

One rainy day in the spring of 1960, the San Francisco poet Robert Duncan arrived at my door, sent to me by our mutual friend Denise Levertov. I had a ...
( Category: United States February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Adrienne Rich

1997 “THE NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES” 1 The taxi meter clicking up loose change who can afford to pay basalt blurring spectral headlights darkblue stabbed with platinum raincoats glassy ...
( Category: United States February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2001-02-23 | Author:Adrienne Rich

Not moved yet she and hers her child inside gazing at a screen and she a reader once now a woman foreseeing elbows sore with the weight she has placed ...
( Category: United States February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adrienne Rich

TO THE AIRPORT Death’s taxi crackles through the mist. The cheeks of diamond battlements flush high and cold. Alarm clocks strike a million sparks of will. Weeping: all night we’ve ...
( Category: United States February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adrienne Rich

Altogether the angels arrive for the chorus in rapidly grabbed robes they snatch scores of hallelujahs complicit with television cameras they bend down their eyes. However they sing their voices ...
( Category: LGBT February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adrienne Rich

Why I Refused the National Medal for the Arts After the text of my letter to Jane Alexander, then chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, had been fragmentarily ...
( Category: Essays February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Adrienne Rich

AN UNSAID WORD She who has power to call her man From that estranged intensity Where his mind forages alone, Yet keeps her peace and leaves him free, And when ...
( Category: United States February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Adrienne Rich

1980 The Spirit of Place —for Michelle Cliff I. Over the hills in Shutesbury, Leverett driving with you in spring road like a streambed unwinding downhill fiddlehead ferns uncurling spring ...
( Category: United States February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adrienne Rich

“Or let us, being today Too rational to cry out, Or trample underfoot What after all preserves A certain savor yet— Though torn up by the roots— Let us make ...
( Category: United States February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:WHITMAN, WALT

LETTER TO RALPH WALDO EMERSON, FROM LEAVES OF GRASS, 1856 BROOKLYN, August, 1856. HERE are thirty-two Poems, which I send you, dear Friend and Master, not having found how I ...
( Category: Poetry February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-18 | Author:Walt Whitman

By the city’s quadrangular houses . . . . in log-huts, or camping with lumbermen, Along the ruts of the turnpike . . . . along the dry gulch and ...
( Category: Literary Criticism February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 1998-12-31 | Author:Walt Whitman [Whitman, Walt]

Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me YEAR that trembled and reel’d beneath me! Your summer wind was warm enough—yet the air I breathed froze me; A thick gloom fell ...
( Category: Poetry February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-02-23 | Author:Chris Highland

The vast immortal suns and the long-enduring pensive moons shall again shine. ………………………… On the beach at night alone, As the old mother sways her to and fro singing her ...
( Category: United States February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-09 | Author:Walt Whitman [Whitman, Walt]

ON TO DENVER — A FRONTIER INCIDENT The jaunt of five or six hundred miles from Topeka to Denver took me through a variety of country, but all unmistakably prolific, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-21 | Author:Walt Whitman [Whitman, Walt]

(In some of the Cemeteries nearly all the dead are Unknown. At Salisbury, N. C., for instance, the known are only 85, while the Unknown are 12,027, and 11,700 of ...
( Category: United States February 24,2017 )