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The Obligations of the Poet

The Obligations of the Poet

By: Adrienne Rich

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May 06, 2023
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The music, the sound of words working together, has always mattered to me. But it’s not necessarily easy listening. It can be fractured, dissonant music…

I want the sense of physicality, flesh and blood, body language. I want the words to act physically on the reader or hearer.

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