‘I happen to think poetry makes a huge difference.’
Adrienne Rich is one of the leading American poets of our century. For forty years, her distinguished writings have brought accolades, including the National Book Award, the Fellowship of American Poets, and the Poet’s Prize. But as she puts it in her early 1980s poem “Sources,” she is a “woman with a mission, not to win prizes/but to change the laws of history.”
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