Charlotte Edey + Adrienne Rich
“The impulse to create begins — often terribly and fearfully — in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence.”
Charlotte Edey
Adrienne Rich
“The impulse to create begins — often terribly and fearfully — in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence.”
— On Writing, Capitalism, Freedom, and How Silence Fertilizes the Human Imagination
“I have wanted one thing: to know simply as I know my name at any given moment, where I stand.”
— from Collected Early Poems: 1950-1970; “Double Monologue”
From Twenty-One Love Poems -
“I ache, brilliantly.”
— from The Fact Of A Doorframe; Poems Selected & New, 1950 - 2001: “The Demon Lover”
The Floating Poem -
From “Transcendental Etude” (For Michelle Cliff), The Dream of a Common Language