Adrienne Rich

Men beware, she is hot to handle. But not without cause. I think That rich is a real writer. Now that is not to say that others aren’t, but Rich has gone through the correct thought process. She knows that it is beyond gender, Male or female, that it requires something else. That it must transcend normal thought. In this she is finding a power that women have for so long, in the writing world, been denied. I don’t see any reason why they should be excluded, for what human can do another can do, but hey I may be the only person who thinks that way!
There is something that she writes on page 546 that really snatched me, because it was the way I first began to think when I began writing…oh and to be sure I am NOT a female, so this only further proves that writing/communication is not unisex. “For about ten years I was reading in fierce snatches, scribbling in notebooks, writing poetry in fragments; I was looking for clues, because if there were no clues then I thought I might be insane.” Me too. Early in my life I came into a library of books. Among them were great authors like Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne, to whom I owe a great debt. However in the rush to experience what it felt to write I thought that I could find something in these books and authors that would help me in my own style. Wrong. Sure they all influenced me, but my style is born from my own soul and that is something I had to come to terms with, after thousands and thousands of crumpled papers!
I would also like to say something about Sources. One line in this entire thing encapsulates what I have been fighting myself. “I have resisted this for years, writing to you as if you could hear me.” I do not speak well verbally, and often times not even in writing, but somehow in writing I always manage to say something, or better yet to someone. All the things that I can’t articulate with the mouth I can sure as hell articulate with my pen. For years growing up I would write letters to my father asking him to get divorced, why did he put up with such abuse? I know it sounds crazy but if you care to comment, as I have only received two (and from the same person!) Maybe I’ll tell you a little about it.