Refuse to Justify

I have found myself lately doing a lot of refusing, as if finally I have reached limits that I thought would never come.

I went to Tuscaloosa last night to hear Adrienne Rich read. I must refuse to justify my silence any longer. I wrote two poems. I am blogging here today.

Here is an amazing link to a piece, "Permeable Membrane," she wrote in which she suggests we should refuse to justify. Politics and poetry are connected. The personal and the political are inseparable:

http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2006/spring/rich-permeable-membrane/