6/23/2023 0 Comments Of Woman Born by Adrienne RichA risky undertaking, and it betrays the failures and clumsiness of such a position. This is a white woman’s attempt – respectful, I believe – to speak through a Black woman’s voice. Her essays employ an argot that contemporary opinion pieces might have cribbed from: ‘The creative energy of patriarchy is fast running out what remains is its self-generating energy for destruction.’ ‘“Identity” became a synonym for “safe space” in which alikeness rather than difference could be explored.’ Elizabeth Bishop’s poem about Billie Holiday, ‘Songs for a Coloured Singer’, is called out for appropriation in 1983: There is a cop who is both prowler and father … The truth of the new is never on the news A drienne Rich’s poems speak so strongly to the current zeitgeist (dating from, say, the Occupy movement through #MeToo to Black Lives Matter) that it’s astounding – no, instructive – to realise they were written twenty, forty, fifty years ago:įalse history gets made all day, any day,
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