a wild patience has taken me this far poem

The march “attracted a huge amount of media attention because abortion arouses emotion,” she said. The most visible sign that the movement remains strong was the turnout of 300,000-or more-people in Washington last month in support of women’s right to abortion.

Norton has published a new collection of her poetry, “Time’s Power,” this month. Rich, who lives in Santa Cruz when she is not off giving readings or teaching one term each year at Stanford University, may be feeling particularly reflective about feminism and its role in her poetry and her life these days. Where feminism has been and where it is going are inescapable themes for one of America’s pre-eminent poets. That patience kept the feminist movement alive and functioning at the grass roots level during the eight Reagan years, the poet says, and now it is emerging more publicly again. A “wild patience” has taken the women’s movement this far, to borrow the title phrase from one of Adrienne Rich’s poetry collections, a mix of enthusiasm and endurance that has allowed women to pile one little gain upon another.

A wild patience has taken me this far poem