@gastarbajterica “Twenty-One Love Poems” is such an amazing sequence! We discussed the passage with the dog in my seminar on Rich in Spring 2021 (all on Zoom then …).

Here are two posts of mine about other moments in the sequence:

https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2021/03/no-one-has-imagined-us-lesbian-couple.html

https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2021/03/philoctetes-in-womans-form-andre-gide.html

#Poetry #AdrienneRich #TwentyOneLovePoems #TheDreamOfACommonLanguage #AndreGide #Philoctetes