In a 1985 letter to her longtime friend and fellow feminist Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich wrote, "And I feel so strongly that we need to do this more, put our lives on paper for each other, not just over the airwaves, and maybe if I write back now it can continue. I too feel as ...
This politics of renaming becomes a central preoccupation of the love poems, an agenda already vouched by Rich in her essay "When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision" (1972).Gayatri Balakrishnan