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We circle silently about the wreck we dive into the hold. I am she: I am he whose drowned face sleeps with open eyes whose breasts still bear the stress whose silver, copper, vermeil cargo lies obscurely inside barrels half-wedged and left to rot we are the half-destroyed instruments that once held to a course the water-eaten log the fouled compass
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Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 Adrienne Rich,2013-04-01 In her seventh volume of poetry Adrienne Rich searches to reclaim to discover what has been forgotten lost or unexplored I came to explore the wreck The words are
‘Diving into the Wreck’ by Adrienne Rich is a hauntingly beautiful poem about the erasure of women from the historical record. In the first lines of this piece, the speaker, who addresses her life through the first-person perspective, describes preparing for a dive.
Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 Adrienne Rich,2013-04-01 In her seventh volume of poetry Adrienne Rich searches to reclaim to discover what has been forgotten lost or unexplored I came to explore the wreck The words are
Adrienne Rich. (1929-2012) Diving into the Wreck (1973) First having read the book of myths, and loaded the camera, and checked the edge of the knife-blade, put on the body-armor of black rubber the absurd flippers the grave and awkward mask.
"Diving into the Wreck" was written by the American poet Adrienne Rich and first published in a collection of the same name in 1973. The poem opens as the speaker prepares for a deep-sea dive and then follows the speaker's exploration of a shipwreck.
Adrienne Rich. Track 11 on Diving Into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972. The title of this famous Adrienne Rich poem suggests going into the past – looking down upon and becoming...
