Dark Fields of the Republic and Midnight Salvage were written during the final decade of the twentieth century and against the grain of their society… - Adrienne Rich

The words are purposes.
The words are maps.
I came to see the damage that was done
and the treasures that prevail.

at the time I started writing, that was already set up as a problem. If you were going to be writing a truly new poetry, could you use the old forms?

An enormous amount is happening globally-different kinds of struggle in different countries, in different societies. When you look at South Africa, there's enormous leadership by women. Black women in South Africa are maintaining and creating a structure. In that violence-ridden society, in the midst of revolution, they are creating childcare centers, soup kitchens, planting gardens, keeping things going on that human level. Now I don't think that's just women doing the service work of the world; those women are also leaders of their communities. We could talk about feminism in the Philippines, in Latin America, in the Caribbean, not a monolithic global movement but many movements, all over the world, contending within and against many different cultures. The United States movement is only a small part of the picture.