Sad Day

[kelly_chambliss]

I know she was 82 and had a good, long, meaningful life, but I'm still very depressed about the death of Adrienne Rich. She was such a formative influence on my understanding of gender and sexuality. I read her poems and her essay on "compulsory heterosexuality" when I was in college, and they transformed the world for me.

Thank you, Adrienne Rich.



(photo credit Robert Giard)

Comments

[kelly_chambliss]

Reading and thinking today, for me, takes the form of honoring her

This is lovely -- and just the way the tributes should go, I think. It's through her work, after all, that her immortality lies. I think she'd like the idea that something about her death gave someone courage. (I know that's how I'll feel, when I'm dead /g/).