Volume 20, Number 15 · October 4, 1973
Cutting the Marble
By Rosemary Tonks
Diving Into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972
by Adrienne Rich
Norton, 62 pp., $1.95 (paper)
Studies for an Actress and Other Poems
by Jean Garrigue
Macmillan, 85 pp., $1.95 (paper)
The first poet is very interesting. In order to understand her, we must go into a certain room in Manhattan where a light is on over a table. A serious woman is sitting there, writing a lesson, which is the lesson of her life. On the paper we observe free verse stanzas in a near-colloquial idiom with a somewhat scientific vocabulary; they have an anonymous appearance. An occasional cockney rhyme (sister / glamor) comes up. Reading the lines gives us the illusion, at moments, of having gained an objective picture of events, even of our own thoughts:
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