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Adrienne Rich

“To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously, to allow what you're reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers, the so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?”

Adrienne Rich, What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics
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What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics by Adrienne Rich
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