ultimately language alone cannot liberate us - Adrienne Rich

what isn't named is often more permeating than what is

I was thinking a lot about something that wasn't being talked about at the time very much. I was thinking about where sexuality belonged in all this. What is the connection between Vietnam and the lovers' bed? If this insane violence is being waged against a very small country by this large and powerful country in which I live, what does that have to do with sexuality and with what's going on between men and women, which I felt also as a struggle even then?

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.