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Arts of the Possible

: Essays and Conversations

"Adrienne Rich's new prose collection could have been titled The Essential Rich."―Women's Review of Books These essays trace a distinguished writer's engagement with her time, her arguments with herself and others

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“You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is renaming.”

— Adrienne Rich, amazon.com

Tagged: Beauty In The Contradiction, Playing With Odd Notions, Mesh of Pushing Against The Grain, Contrarian, Mixing All The Notions

“Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves.”

— Adrienne Rich, amazon.com

Tagged: Understanding Ourselves, understanding assumptions, Self-understanding, Understanding Yourself, comprehending