My years in Santa Cruz still feel like a “different light and life” to me.ĭuring college, I worked at Bookshop Santa Cruz and Adrienne Rich came in from time to time. Once, you’d still know me now though in a different Returning always to the same rocks, the same cliffs, withĮver-changing words, always the same language Strawberry and artichoke fields, its bottomless mind Inland, floating its fog through redwood rifts and over This long bay, sheening the light for miles As in “An Atlas for a Difficult World”, I, too, was living That Adrienne Rich lived in Santa Cruz and, at times, wrote about the area made her words seem even more true to my own experience. While everyone else appeared to easily adapt to living in the dorms, I felt completely out of place - and that’s what I related to in this passage from “Diving into the Wreck” And now: it is easy to forget what I came for among so many who have always lived here swaying their crenellated fans between the reefs and besides you breathe differently down here. “Diving into the Wreck” seemed like an apt description of my first lonely and disorienting months away from home. And I’d had an emotional reaction to the poems. I still wanted to write about my emotional connection to a work I didn’t want to dissect it or pull it apart to look for a deeper meaning. I hadn’t fully learned how to think critically about a piece of writing. I was never very good at analyzing poems, and the essays I wrote about her poems weren’t very good either. (The professor was British and referred to her as Add-rienne Rich, not Aid-rienne Rich, so that’s what I called her initially, too.)

I’d never heard of Adrienne Rich before September 1994, when I studied three of her poems, “ Diving into the Wreck“, “ Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev”, and “ Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law“, in my UCSC freshman core course. Urn:oclc:611765606 Republisher_date 20161125114940 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 638 Scandate 20161123064008 Scanner Rich, one of my favorite poets, died this week. OL1881421W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 79.73 Pages 76 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:039331037X Urn:lcp:wildpatiencehast00rich:epub:47d689d0-9fe0-4dc6-8916-0dda2d0893ca Extramarc Princeton University Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier wildpatiencehast00rich Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t12n98722 Invoice 1315 Isbn 0393000729Ġ393014940 Lccn 81004382 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL18352039M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:48:22.171326 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA1126501 Boxid_2 CH1144816 City New York Donor

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