![]() ![]() At the same time, she has filled her poetry with non-poetic language, dialogic forms, as a search of freedom even in the writing, but never failing to provide it with vivid and delicate images. In fact, the poems of the collection are a combination of very private moments with a wider expression of what an existence as a lesbian means. One example is given by Twenty-One Love Poems, a pamphlet that was first published in 1987, later included in the book The Dream of a Common Language. As somebody who considered that the personal was inherently political, it came as no surprise that she thought that poetry, too, should be the domain of radical political content. Initially married, and after giving birth to three children, she then began a relationship with a woman. ![]() ![]() Adrienne Rich was an American poet and essay writer, who was involved in the political activism of the 1960s, which ranged from civil rights, radical feminism, the anti-war movement and other aspects of counter-culture. ![]()
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