![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In that same letter she wrote, "Working on poems, trying a kind of erotic Marxism or sensual materialism.Do you know Gramsci's Prison Letters? did I ask you this before?" The next year she gave a lecture in Scotland called "Poetry and Commitment," at a conference on poetry and politics, which included this: "Antonio Gramsci wrote of the culture of the future that 'new' individual artists can't be manufactured: art is a part of society-but that to imagine a new socialist society is to imagine a new kind of art that we can't foresee from where we now stand. Adrienne Rich & The Revolutionary Idea For gathering at Revolution Books, 2012 When I think of Adrienne and revolution I think of the email she sent in 2005 called Washing the Revolutionaries, after I wrote that I'd seen men washing the statue of Simón Bolivar on Central Park South with a big brush and white soap, and wondered if José Martí would be next. ![]()
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