Poet

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.

Life on the planet is born of woman.

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

Life on the planet is born of woman.

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.