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Critics tend to discount Rich’s later poems, fundamentally misunderstanding how they engage her radical vision of community.

"Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: Come buy our orchards fruits, Come buy, come buy…." Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) was the...

Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.

Adrienne Rich’s Solitude from Boston Review. Critics tend to discount Rich’s later poems, fundamentally misunderstanding how they engage her radical vision of community.

enclos, past participle of  • • My grandmother spent forty years in self-imposed exile. Forty years living a life of quiet remove. And prayer. Lots of it. Mimi was a staunch Catholic. In the early 1950s, when she was in her forties, she was bitten by an unidentified bug in the backyard while she was talking to a neighbor across the fence. When she returned to the kitchen, her forehead was bleeding. The doctors never came up with a definitive diagnosis, but after that she almost never left the house. And she worried—about everything—the state of the world, traveling, her children.