From Adrienne Rich and Emily Dickinson to Johann Jakob Bachofen, “Mutterrecht”, and Basel. #111Words #AdrienneRich #EmilyDickinson #JohannJakobBachofen #Poetry #Basel https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/03/from-adrienne-rich-and-emily-dickinson.html

On poet Adrienne Rich’s husband, father, sister, and brother-in-law. #111Words #AdrienneRich #Poetry #AlfredHConrad #Slavery #ArnoldRiceRich #Pathology #CynthiaRich #Activism #RoyJGlauber #Physics #NobelPrize https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/03/on-poet-adrienne-richs-husband-father.html

Proofreading a book with Professor Albert Gelpi in Summer 1986. #111Words #AlbertGelpi #Proofreading #Stanford #1986 #Poetry #RalphWaldoEmerson #WaltWhitman #EmilyDickinson #AdrienneRich https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/02/proofreading-book-with-professor-albert.html

Neal Boenzi’s 1987 photograph of Adrienne Rich for the New York Times. #111Words #AdrienneRich #NealBoenzi #Photography #Poetry #TheNewYorkTimes #HD #EzraPound #Modernism https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/02/neal-boenzis-1987-photograph-of.html

The wreck and not the story of the wreck, the thing itself and not the myth

I came to explore the wreck.
The words are purposes.
The words are maps.
I came to see the damage that was done
and the treasures that prevail.
I stroke the beam of my lamp
slowly along the flank
of something more permanent
than fish or weed

the thing I came for:
the wreck and not the story of the wreck
the thing itself and not the myth
the drowned face always staring
toward the sun
the evidence of damage
worn by salt and sway into this threadbare beauty
the ribs of the disaster
curving their assertion
among the tentative haunters.

- Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck

the great dark birds of history

In Those Years
Adrienne Rich

#Poetry #AdrienneRich #InThoseYears #YaleReview

https://yalereview.org/article/those-years

My heart is moved by all I cannot save:
so much has been destroyed

I have to cast my lot with those
who age after age, perversely,

with no extraordinary power,
reconstitute the world.

—Adrienne Rich
#poetry #AdrienneRich

started a #wikipedia article on social worker, therapist, activist, Bernice Goodman (1927-2003): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernice_Goodman @wikiwomeninred @wikilovespride #LGBTQ #AudreLorde #AdrienneRich #socialwork #LesbianHistory

#art #history: o, the ignominy of admitting that i'm not extremely intimate with my subject's oeuvre...
still, she sounds so rad that i had to make sketchy ode to adrienne rich (born #otd in 1929). an essayist & poet who centred the oppression of women & lesbians in her work, adrienne was also a jewish pro-palestinian activist involved with the new #jewish agenda, which supported the #BDS movement.
#adrienneRich #illustration #poetry #freePalestine #ceasefireNow #feminism

The wreck and not the story of the wreck. #adriennerich

Adrienne Rich - "For an Anniversary"

The wing of the osprey lifted
over the nest on Tomales Bay
into fog and difficult gust
raking treetops from Inverness Ridge on over
The left wing shouldered into protective
gesture the left wing we thought broken

and the young beneath in the windy nest
creaking there in their hunger
and the tides beseeching, besieging
the bay in its ruined languor

~~~
Celebrating a wedding anniversary today, and coincidentally thumbed through Midnight Salvage from #AdrienneRich and found this waiting -- so seems like a natural #TodaysPoem

Reprinted here, if you want something easier to bookmark: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-feb-07-bk-5564-story.html

Adding a Piece Back In
“My heart is moved by all I cannot save:so much has been destroyedI have to cast my lot with thosewho age after age, perversely,with no extraordinary power,reconstitute the world.”~ Adrienne Richfrom “Natural Resources”

Day two of life with a rescue puppy is a reminder that life will be different. This is a sweet puppy, but a pup
https://alexandersmap.com/2023/07/30/adding-a-piece-back-in/
#Lifestyle #Community #Family #Pets #Poetry #Relationships #AdrienneRich

Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: 15 Years Ago, ‘Mamma Mia!’ Showed Us How Family Abolition Could Change Everything https://jezebel.com/mamma-mia-family-abolition-1850649149 #Jezebel #americanpeopleofgermandescent #compulsoryheterosexuality #tanyachristinebaranski #mammamiaherewegoagain #sophieamandaseyfried #rosiejuliewalters #sampiercebrosnan #harrycolinfirth #amandaseyfried #piercebrosnan #juliewalters #adriennerich #billstellan #merylstreep #sophielewis #harrystyles #maryretta

In a trivia contest yesterday, the question "Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?" almost made me cry, because… https://allpoetry.com/poem/11641436-Power-by-Adrienne-Rich

"It takes a late and slowly blooming wisdom
To learn that those we marked infallible
Are tragi-comic stumblers like ourselves."

- Adrienne Rich, Stepping Backward