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Adrienne Rich
Cassidy Scanlon delves into the world of Adrienne Rich in comparison to other poets like Pablo Neruda and the contractions between heterosexual and queer relationships in literature and the freedom Adrienne allows women.
In her essay “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,” Audre Lorde states:
“The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation. For this reason, we have often turned away from the exploration and consideration of the erotic as a source of power and information, confusing it with its opposite, the pornographic. But pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling.”
Source: Revisiting Adrienne Rich’s “Twenty-One Love Poems” — PUSSY MAGIC
–from “Call me by My True Names – The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh”, Parallax Press, 2005.
While it is the convention to think of paint as a material that covers a surface, I think when it comes to Marden’s work, we might do well to think of it as a means to expose inchoate feelings marked by a tender sense of beauty and longing, and to document an extraordinarily resilient sensitivity to the thrumming pain, terror, and loneliness of being human. – John Yau
Illustration by Bianca Bagnarelli
When I got sick, I warned my friends: Don’t try to make me stop thinking about death.
Archer, Republic of South Africa, Korf Hoeks Farm, 8,000-2,000 BCE. Watercolour by Maria Weyersberg,Courtesy Frobenius-Institut Frankfurt am Main
Our imaginative life today has access to the pre-linguistic, ancestral mind: rich in imagery, emotions and associations
Source: Imagination is such an ancient ability it might precede language | Aeon Essays