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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”
Adrienne Rich
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Adrienne Rich
Age: 82 †
Born: 1929
Born: May 16
Died: 2012
Died: March 27
Essayist
Feminist
Peace Activist
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Baltimore
Maryland
Adrienne Cecile Rich
Adrienne Cécile Rich
Adrienne Riche
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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.
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I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.
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Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.
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