![]() In Outward: Adrienne Rich’s Expanding Solitudes, Pavlić focuses more on this later work, which has received far less critical attention than her renowned poetry from the 1960 to the ’80s. As a result, Pavlić likely enjoyed as intimate a window into Rich’s late-stage poetic process as anyone else in her life. Though it would be natural for an English professor like Pavlić to have immersed himself in Rich’s compelling catalog during these years, he told me that he preferred instead just to live in the moment of ongoing organic connection. They became friends and informal writing colleagues, exchanging poems and letters multiple times a week and occasionally meeting in person. ![]() ![]() The two first met when Rich selected Pavlić’s Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue for the 2001 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize. WHILE ED PAVLIĆ’S recently published study of Adrienne Rich’s poetry runs about 200 pages, their 12-year weekly correspondence lasting until Rich’s death in 2012 amounts to much more. ![]()
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