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Analysis and comments on Cartographies of Silence by Adrienne Rich

Comment 1 of 1, added on March 3rd, 2006 at 12:08 PM.

I am amazed that no one until now has written a few words about
"Cartographies of Silence", a five-part sequence that leaves one breathless
after reading. The point-counterpoint affinities, the paradoxes and the
obstacles of words versus music create the primary leitmotif that sparkles
endless analyses, as the "conversation [that] begins with a lie" repeatetly
bounces against "[t]he technology of silence." But of "silence not absence
// of words or music or even /raw sounds". It is the "silence [that]
strips bare", that stretches "like skin over meanings" as two people sit
close, talking until dawn: the dawn of deeper meaning, of deeper music to
somehow alter the "sounds of silence".

adeodato piazza nicolai
Padova, Italy

p.s. I have translated this poem into Italian because it profoundly touched
my soul.

ADEODATO PIAZZA NICOLAI from Italy



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Poet: Adrienne Rich
Poem: Cartographies of Silence
Added: Mar 10 2005
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