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Poet: Adrienne Rich
Poem: My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
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Oct 11 2012
Comment 8 of 8, added on August 3rd, 2010 at 8:44 PM.
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janylverdu from United States
Comment 7 of 8, added on May 9th, 2010 at 12:00 AM.
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Comment 6 of 8, added on December 2nd, 2009 at 8:29 PM.
Lesbianism
Although Rich's narrator in this poem is in throws of a sexual experience with a woman, the gender or sexual orientation of the narrator is not exposed. As a gay woman, I take this poem as a woman making love to another woman, but the same lines that allow me to read the poem in this view also tend themselves to a heterosexual experience as well. This, in itself is the true gift of Rich. She herself was married and never explicitly stated her sexuality, but she accurately and beautifully relayed an experience that is believed to never have been experienced by her. Rich, in her entirety, is a blessing to American poetry and lesbian literature as a whole, despite her ambiguity.
Paige from United States
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