Poems by Adrienne Rich
Cartographies of Silence
... stretched like skin over meaningsof a night through which two people ...
Final Notions
... It will touch through your ribs, it will take all your heart ...
For the Dead
... but cannot leave, burning-down but not burnt-down ...
For the Record
... if the mountain spewed stones of fire into the river ...
From a Survivor
... Like everybody else, we thought of ourselves as special ...
From an Atlas of the Difficult World
... I know you are reading this poem through your failing sight, the thick ...
Implosions
... I wanted to choose words that even you ...
In A Classroom
... a presence like a stone, if a stone were thinking ...
In Those Years
... They were headed somewhere else but their beaks and pinions drove ...
Integrity
... of the last foot, the hand that slammed and locked the door, ...
Living In Sin
... of last night's cheese and three sepulchral bottles ...
Miracle Ice Cream
... Scott Joplin ragtime strewn behind it like pearls, ...
Moving in Winter
... evening after evening while the wax runs down ...
My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
... my love hot on your scent on the cusp of winter ...
November 1968
... once the last absolutes were torn to pieces ...
