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...pews of the First Church in Cambridge overflowed with poets, feminists, scholars and literary enthusiasts alike Nov. 6, when renowned poet Adrienne Rich '51 read selections from her work as part of the Radcliffe Institute Inaugural Lecture Series. Rich has become one of the most influential writers of the contemporary women's movement, with volumes of poetry and prose that penetrate issues of politics, oppression, sexuality and race...
...reading itself ranged from older poems like "Divisions of Labor" (which focuses on women in the back rows of politics) to works from her most recent publication, Midnight Salvage, and concluded with the poet sharing two new poems with the audience. Empathy for the troubles of the persecuted shone through the readings from Dark Fields of the Republic, as Rich's intimate voice, laden with strong pauses, directly addressed "the reader who still listens" to the politics of poetry. Shifting to works from Midnight Salvage, Rich read to rows of eyelids; listeners absorbed her words with eyes closed...
...Rich, was as "a cemetery is controlled." The morbid metaphor originates in this piece, which makes backhanded allusions to John Keats and Antonio Gramsci, who are buried in the same cemetery in Rome. Through Rich's instinctive search for the figure of Orion, listeners and readers voyage with the poet through a life of activism, looking through "history's bloodshot eyes" across "the pathetic erections of soothsayers," before establishing Rich as a poet and activist "practiced in life," who scans the fog for her midnight salvage...
...went by ship. In 1964 he arrived at the G.O.P. Convention in San Francisco by train without his beloved wife Kit. "We don't feel good traveling on the same train together," he said. Recently, childless and bereft of Kit, he found life less worth living. To paraphrase the poet, "She first deceased ... he for a little tried/ To live without her ... liked it not and died...
...across the puzzle the other day in Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s new memoir, "A Life in the Twentieth Century." Schlesinger says that the game of The Lady or the Tiger became widely popular when Stockton proposed it more than a century ago. The poet Robert Browning announced that he "had no hesitation in supposing that such a princess under such circumstances would direct her lover to the tiger's door...