Lovely. Erotic and “explicit” even--but so much more than that...and mostly a layering of metaphor, simile, fresh and original language...in short everything that makes poetry provoke emotion. I think Sharon Olds learned a lot from Rich in her book The Gold Cell, or maybe she was simply discovering similar territory--that evoked by writers like Ninn and so many others.
Sensuality and poetry are one and the same, whatever the topic I think. Nature, war, life and death, but love - even unsentimentalized (maybe especially that), well, yes.
Such a wonderful poem. There isn't much to be said in the poem but it still communicates so much! The imagery is rich and original. I can't say enough how much I enjoyed reading this beautifully sensual poem.
Lovely. Erotic and “explicit” even--but so much more than that...and mostly a layering of metaphor, simile, fresh and original language...in short everything that makes poetry provoke emotion. I think Sharon Olds learned a lot from Rich in her book The Gold Cell, or maybe she was simply discovering similar territory--that evoked by writers like Ninn and so many others.
Sensuality and poetry are one and the same, whatever the topic I think. Nature, war, life and death, but love - even unsentimentalized (maybe especially that), well, yes.
Yes and yes. I said yes.
Such an important voice.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/adrienne-rich
Lovely.
(so far) no comments?!...too intimate for words?
Such a wonderful poem. There isn't much to be said in the poem but it still communicates so much! The imagery is rich and original. I can't say enough how much I enjoyed reading this beautifully sensual poem.
Beautifull verse for beatific moments. Dave
Powerful wonderment
Oh the touch of the fern frond. Words , image, delicate beyond fingers.
Read, before seeing title or author I knew it was woman to woman. Does that matter to the sensibility
sensual beyond sexuall of the poem? No.