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| CT, Emily (crowend head), 2014 |
The study
of silence has long engrossed me. The matrix of a poet’s work consists not only
of what is there to be absorbed and worked on, but also of what is
missing, desaparecido, rendered
unspeakable, thus unthinkable. It is through these invisible holes in reality
that poetry makes its way — certainly for women and other marginalized subjects
and for disempowered and colonized peoples generally, but ultimately for all
who practice any art at its deeper levels. The impulse to create begins — often
terribly and fearfully — in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking
of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem
is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is
being broken?
Adrienne
Rich , “Arts of the Possible : Essays and Conversations”
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