lick your cigarette and kiss me: Do you have readers who come up to you and say, “You’ve changed my life?” »

wwnorton:

Adrienne Rich: Yes, I do, and I usually say to them—which I also believe to be true—“You were changing your life and you read my book or you read that poem at a point where you could use it, and I’m really glad, but you were changing your life.” Somehow when we are in the…

First heard of her when I was reading Sylvia Plath’s journals. Sylvia loved her, thought Adrienne was the greater poet.

RIP Adrienne Rich. I have always loved reading you.

(Source: english.illinois.edu, via liomcat)