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@gastarbajterica “Twenty-One Love Poems” is such an amazing sequence! We discussed the passage with the dog in my seminar on Rich in Spring 2021 (all on Zoom then …).
Here are two posts of mine about other moments in the sequence:
https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2021/03/no-one-has-imagined-us-lesbian-couple.html
https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2021/03/philoctetes-in-womans-form-andre-gide.html
andrewjshields.blogspot.com"No one has imagined us": A lesbian couple and the representation of women in pornography in Adrienne Rich's "Twenty-One Love Poems"Adrienne Rich's "Twenty-One Love Poems" (1976) depicts two women in a lesbian relationship who feel the absence of the representation of les...