“I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.”

Source: The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984

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American poet, essayist and feminist 1929–2012

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