Potential Titles: Adrienne Rich

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As if it were not ourselves - Adrienne Rich

Chiefly because I'd rather love my equals - Adrienne Rich "Apology"

Turning in the fog of my mind - Adrienne Rich "Apology"

A woman with a mindful of fog and bloodletting claws - Adrienne Rich "Apology"

The nerves of a bird and the nightmares of a dog - Adrienne Rich "Apology"

Sweet dark drops of your spirit - Adrienne Rich "The Art of Translation"

Green with the flare of life - Adrienne Rich "The Art of Translation"

The sharded self of the lightbulb - Adrienne Rich "The Art of Translation"

The obsolete copper profile - Adrienne Rich "The Art of Translation"

Hoping they have redemption stored - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

The suburbs of acquiescence - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Silence rising fumelike - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

The capital of money and dolor - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

The cleft tree-trunk and the wintering ants - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Our intricate losing game - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

The spider's decision is made - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

On her own terms in cold, in silence - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

As if accounting nature's waste - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

The bleak glare aching over all - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Voices alive in legends - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

A poetry older than hatred - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

The nightvault swarming with stars - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

The Pleiades broken loose - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Coherently webbed and knotted - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Through the eye of a rock - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Their wild calm constructs - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Could overwhelm those waters - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Some ghosts come everywhere with you - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Executing the blueprints of resistance - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Already acquainted with mourning - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Clouds an arm's reach away - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Drinking the spaces of crimson - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Your hands of oak and silk - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Of blackberry juice and drums - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

This earth and the bones within it - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Promises made and mocked - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Plowed contours of shame and hope - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Murmurs extinguished and echoing - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Fooled as to her destiny - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

To escape the common fate - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

The burnt-out dream of innocence - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Blessing and cursing are born as twins - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

In furrows of relentless precision - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Black lace crisp as cinders - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

As summer tears apart milkweeds - Adrienne Rich "August"

How its blues and reds could spin to a headier violet - Adrienne Rich "A Ball Is for Throwing"

But lives only in flash of flight - Adrienne Rich "A Ball Is for Throwing"

From instant of release to the catch - Adrienne Rich "A Ball Is for Throwing"

The toy withheld is the token of all who refrain from play - Adrienne Rich "A Ball Is for Throwing"

In whose adorable doll's house nothing was ever broken - Adrienne Rich "A Ball Is for Throwing"

Crushed at the vineyards' edge - Adrienne Rich "Camino Real"

Hawk-skied, carrion-clean - Adrienne Rich "Camino Real"

Ranging themselves over enormous autumn - Adrienne Rich "Camino Real"

To footnote lesser evils - Adrienne Rich "Camino Real"

Never to trust to memory only - Adrienne Rich "Camino Real"

Feeding the partisans from frugal larders - Adrienne Rich "Char"

The moon ablaze in every quarter - Adrienne Rich "Char"

Meadows of fog and crickets - Adrienne Rich "Char"

The invisible existence of the thrush - Adrienne Rich "Char"

The microbes frozen in each soul - Adrienne Rich "Char"

The poet appalled and transfixed - Adrienne Rich "Char"

The maker of terrible delicate decisions - Adrienne Rich "Char"

A courage wrapped in absolute tact - Adrienne Rich "Char"

Wild thyme ripped from a burning meadow - Adrienne Rich "Char"

Thrown husk of a moon - Adrienne Rich "Darklight"

The night's first dream - Adrienne Rich "Darklight"

Ancient hour between light and dark - Adrienne Rich "Darklight"

That tongue shall spell a prince's funeral song - Adrienne Rich "David's Boyhood"

Let David play the harp for Saul - Adrienne Rich "David's Boyhood"

Shall strangle in the harpstrings eloquent and thin - Adrienne Rich "David's Boyhood"

A head that lies where Saul's has lain - Adrienne Rich "David's Boyhood"

What later folly or design shall never censor - Adrienne Rich "David's Boyhood"

The map of the last age of her life - Adrienne Rich "Dreamwood"

A map of variations on the one great choice - Adrienne Rich "Dreamwood"

Distances blued and purpled by romance - Adrienne Rich "Dreamwood"

Memory lifts her smoky mirror - Adrienne Rich "Eastern War Time"

Her pockets drained of meaning - Adrienne Rich "Eastern War Time"

Eel eyes piercing the rivers - Adrienne Rich "Ends of the Earth"

From the marrow of our bones - Adrienne Rich "For a Friend in Travail"

The tides beseeching, besieging the bay - Adrienne Rich "For an Anniversary"

The bay in its ruined languor - Adrienne Rich "For an Anniversary"

From your palm a rift of salt - Adrienne Rich "For This"

Uncommon and agile as truth - Adrienne Rich "For This"

A lighthouse keeper's ethics - Adrienne Rich "For This"

And still we aren't inured - Adrienne Rich "Four Short Poems 1"

As I have been compelled by you - Adrienne Rich "Four Short Poems 1"

Courtliness and operatic mystery - Adrienne Rich "Four Short Poems 1"

Spraying ruin on revolution - Adrienne Rich "Four Short Poems 4"

Stolen secrets in the cleft reside - Adrienne Rich "Four Short Poems 4"

History of fox briars of legend - Adrienne Rich "Fox"

The truth of briars - Adrienne Rich "Fox"

A vixen's courage in vixen terms - Adrienne Rich "Fox"

The pearly choker of innocence around my throat - Adrienne Rich "Grating"

Where beauty names itself - Adrienne Rich "Grating"

Only wild and wavering - Adrienne Rich "Implosions"

Only three hours of dark in your night - Adrienne Rich "In the North"

Five swans chanting overhead - Adrienne Rich "Letters to a Young Poet"

Panic in the labyrinth - Adrienne Rich "Letters to a Young Poet"

Caught in a laboratory without a science - Adrienne Rich "Letters to a Young Poet"

This undertow of utter repetition - Adrienne Rich "Letters to a Young Poet"

Between persistence and impatience - Adrienne Rich "A Long Conversation"

The bench of forced confessions - Adrienne Rich "A Long Conversation"

Your shadow with its enormous eyes - Adrienne Rich "A Long Conversation"

On the scarred bench sequestered - Adrienne Rich "A Long Conversation"

Arsenals spawning wealth - Adrienne Rich "A Long Conversation"

The hurl and flutter of the gulls' wings - Adrienne Rich "A Long Conversation"

Pelicans and cormorants stumbling up the bay - Adrienne Rich "A Long Conversation"

Abruptly bandaged in darkness - Adrienne Rich "A Long Conversation"

Anger and fear rotating on an axle of love - Adrienne Rich "A Long Conversation"

Stone by stone I pile the cairn of my intention - Adrienne Rich "A Mark of Resistance"

With the noon's weight upon my back - Adrienne Rich "A Mark of Resistance"

The slanting fields which I love but cannot save - Adrienne Rich "A Mark of Resistance"

In the shape of nothing that has ever existed before - Adrienne Rich "A Mark of Resistance"

The infinity of these silent spaces - Adrienne Rich "Messages"

The true time of our universe - Adrienne Rich "Messages"

Simple textures falling open - Adrienne Rich "Messages"

Skyward through a glazed rectangle - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

An old trigonometry still true - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

In orbits flaming or cold - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Wisteria bulging on spring air - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Declare all passions obsolete - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

The managed contagion of ignorance - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Look through history's bloodshot eyes - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

This dreadnought wreck cut loose - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

In her famine waisted flamingo gown - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Ate and drank liberation - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Grief-blind on ice - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Take the temperature of the soul - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

When the black irises lean at dawn - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

The hen vouchsafes no safety - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

The pride of architects collapsing - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Fame slides on its belly - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

The fog's irregular documents break open - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Young stars in the belt of Orion - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Following you up stairwells of scarred oak - Adrienne Rich "Modotti"

Corridors of tile and jaundiced plaster - Adrienne Rich "Modotti"

Your footprints of light - Adrienne Rich "Modotti"

The stern exposure of your brows - Adrienne Rich "Modotti"

From your neighborhood of volcanoes - Adrienne Rich "Modotti"

Into a bitter-chocolate vein - Adrienne Rich "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"

All but the footprint of your soul - Adrienne Rich "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"

As we don't say of the night - Adrienne Rich "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"

For a peasant century's bread - Adrienne Rich "1941"

The amateur of drought - Adrienne Rich "1941"

The collector of rains - Adrienne Rich "1941"

My century's hinged and beveled mirror - Adrienne Rich "1999"

Raise a poem to justice - Adrienne Rich "Noctilucent Clouds"

With your sheet-lightning apprehension - Adrienne Rich "Noctilucent Clouds"

Transparent and bound to disappear - Adrienne Rich "Octobrish"

Displaced from their own habitat - Adrienne Rich "Octobrish"

Air to their purpose - Adrienne Rich "Olivia"

The exhausted theatre of of your sleep - Adrienne Rich "Olivia"

To lift above loyalty - Adrienne Rich "Olivia"

Lashes of white light binding another hailcloud - Adrienne Rich "Peace"

While the sun shines in one quarter of heaven - Adrienne Rich "Peace"

And the rainbow breaks out its enormous flag - Adrienne Rich "Peace"

The sack-draped backs of the cattle in their kingdom - Adrienne Rich "Peace"

Only to have a grief equal to all these tears - Adrienne Rich "Peeling Onions"

All that stayed stuffed in my lungs like smog - Adrienne Rich "Peeling Onions"

A woman in the shape of a monster - Adrienne Rich "Planetarium"

Levitating into the night sky riding the polished lenses - Adrienne Rich "Planetarium"

Galaxies of women, there doing penance for impetuousness - Adrienne Rich "Planetarium"

Chilled in those spaces of the mind - Adrienne Rich "Planetarium"

Every impulse of light exploding from the core - Adrienne Rich "Planetarium"

The light that shrivels mountains and leaves a man alive - Adrienne Rich "Planetarium"

The radio impulse pouring from Taurus - Adrienne Rich "Planetarium"

In the direct path of a battery of signals - Adrienne Rich "Planetarium"

That a light wave could take 15 years to travel through me - Adrienne Rich "Planetarium"

Trying to translate pulsations into images - Adrienne Rich "Planetarium"

For the relief of the body and the reconstruction of the mind - Adrienne Rich "Planetarium"

A modest life punctuated with fevers - Adrienne Rich "Plaza Street and Flatbush"

A bandage over bewilderment - Adrienne Rich "Plaza Street and Flatbush"

Art is a register of light - Adrienne Rich "Plaza Street and Flatbush"

Dressed with a kindly quilt - Adrienne Rich "Rauschenberg's Bed"

From a spectral pillow - Adrienne Rich "Rauschenberg's Bed"

Ice-packed in dreams of freezing - Adrienne Rich "Rauschenberg's Bed"

An ocean heartless as eternity - Adrienne Rich "Regardless"

Time of splintering and stardust - Adrienne Rich "Regardless"

Through fog thicket and twisted wire - Adrienne Rich "Rusted Legacy"

Dark's velvet dialectic - Adrienne Rich "Rusted Legacy"

Art's uncharted aquifers - Adrienne Rich "Rusted Legacy"

A space primed for neglect - Adrienne Rich "Second Sight"

Paths that have failed - Adrienne Rich "Second Sight"

In search of reasons underground - Adrienne Rich "Second Sight"

Stored like sacred grain - Adrienne Rich "Seven Skins"

A hermit crab seeing nobler shells - Adrienne Rich "Seven Skins"

All that rots or rusts - Adrienne Rich "She"

Missing Every Other Point - Adrienne Rich "Shooting Script 12"

Ashes spilled - Adrienne Rich "Shooting Script 14"

The map of the future - Adrienne Rich "Shooting Script 14"

Her dreams and whimpers tangled with mine - Adrienne Rich "Sisters"

Gleaning transcripts of fog - Adrienne Rich "Tattered Kaddish"

This surrendered acre - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"

Trembling on the broken crust - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"

Moss behaving like a guide - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"

Filled with perfect ozone - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"

The blizzard's peace and drama - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"

The altar where eternal bargains are struck - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"

Inside your destructible heart - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"

Dared mix beauty with courage - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"

Stings the air like a sharp herb - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"

Across the surrendered forest - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"

The map of chance and purpose - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"

That speaks louder than my passport - Adrienne Rich "This Evening Let's"

We're neither of us running - Adrienne Rich "This Evening Let's"

Many reasons not to waste a rainy evening - Adrienne Rich "This Evening Let's"

Each netted in transparent air - Adrienne Rich "Through Cottalitos Under Rolls of Cloud"

The clear oranges burning - Adrienne Rich "Through Cottalitos Under Rolls of Cloud"

When your dreams ebbed salt-thick - Adrienne Rich "Through Cottalitos Under Rolls of Cloud"

Whose breath was fog to your mist - Adrienne Rich "Through Cottalitos Under Rolls of Cloud"

Whose stubborn shadow covered you - Adrienne Rich "Through Cottalitos Under Rolls of Cloud"

In their outraged light - Adrienne Rich "Through Cottalitos Under Rolls of Cloud"

The glassy blue of a perpetually remoulded calm - Adrienne Rich "Travail et Joie"

A wintry hunger mopes beyond that table - Adrienne Rich "Travail et Joie"

Strain like urchins at the guardian ropes - Adrienne Rich "Travail et Joie"

The guardian ropes our longing cannot break - Adrienne Rich "Travail et Joie"

All these objects of our envious thought - Adrienne Rich "Travail et Joie"

The mirage of fruit piled without fault - Adrienne Rich "Travail et Joie"

Cramming my head with light - Adrienne Rich "Travail et Joie"

Dismembering every fraction like a toy - Adrienne Rich "Travail et Joie"

This time, my way, and new - Adrienne Rich "Travail et Joie"

Mortared with the shells of trilobites - Adrienne Rich "Two Arts"

Pieced together by starlight - Adrienne Rich "Two Arts"

Entrusted to close the box - Adrienne Rich "Veteran's Day"

Ankled and waisted with bells - Adrienne Rich "Veteran's Day"

Dumpster shrine of miracles - Adrienne Rich "Veteran's Day"

Eyes hooded in refusal - Adrienne Rich "Veteran's Day"

Awful bridge rising over naked air - Adrienne Rich "Victory"

Foils for fencing with pain - Adrienne Rich "Victory"

Glasses of varying spectrum - Adrienne Rich "Victory"

Victory indented in disaster - Adrienne Rich "Victory"

Who rode on what shoulders - Adrienne Rich "Waiting for You at the Mystery Spot"

Watching the miraculous migration of sunshafts - Adrienne Rich "Waiting for You at the Mystery Spot"

Great spears folding into letters - Adrienne Rich "Waiting for You at the Mystery Spot"

Trying to breathe that word into the well's ear - Adrienne Rich "Well in Ruined Courtyard"

And the old revolutionary road breaks off into shadows - Adrienne Rich "What Kind of Times Are These"

A meeting-house abandoned by the persecuted - Adrienne Rich "What Kind of Times Are These"

Who disappeared into those shadows - Adrienne Rich "What Kind of Times Are These"

Picking mushrooms at the edge of dread - Adrienne Rich "What Kind of Times Are These"

Our country moving closer to its own truth and dread - Adrienne Rich "What Kind of Times Are These"

Its own ways of making people disappear - Adrienne Rich "What Kind of Times Are These"

The woods meeting the unmarked strip of light - Adrienne Rich "What Kind of Times Are These"

Ghost-ridden crossroads, leafmold paradise - Adrienne Rich "What Kind of Times Are These"

Who wants to buy it, sell it, make it disappear - Adrienne Rich "What Kind of Times Are These"

The glassy, concrete octagon suspended from the cliffs - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

The poet's tower facing the western ocean - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

Three thousand miles from what I once called home - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

As lilacs in the dooryard once bound me - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

Something to bind me to this coast - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

Multitude is the blur flung by distinct forms - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

The grey Pacific unrolling its scrolls of surf - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

Stooped over sewing machines in denim dust - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

Bent under the shattering skies of harvest - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

Defend a solitude of barbed-wire and searchlights - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

To hear strangeness calling you from far away - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

To go to meet the Stranger without fear or weapon - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

These words to my worst friends and best enemies - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

If a cloud knew loneliness and fear - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

A privilege we can't afford in the world that is - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

Endangered species on the mist-struck spur of the mountain - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

Her eye, half-hooded, sharp and true - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

Far from the protection of those she has called her own - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

When the winter flood-tides wrench the tower from the rock - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

When leviathan is endangered and Jonah becomes revenger - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

When center and edges are crushed together - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

Howling our loneliness within the tribes - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

The refugee child and the exile's child re-open the blasted and forbidden city - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

Tell our stories of solitude spent in multitude - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"


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