To begin the first session of my seminar this semester on Adrienne Rich's poetry, I asked what the students what they saw in Neal Boenzi's 1987 photograph of Rich for the New York Times. One student commented on the poet being surrounded by her books in her office, which another described as an apparently "comfortable place". Then we discussed how she looks like she is in a conversation where she is explaining or agreeing with something, with her body language doubly thoughtful – reflective and considerate. I also identified two books with blurry titles, which position Rich after the heyday of American Modernist poetry: H.D.'s "Collected Poems" and Ezra Pound's "The Cantos". (Andrew Shields, #111words, 18 February 2025)
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