The Dream of a Common Language
Marie Curie dies denying that her wounds came from the same source as her power, and the leader of a women's climbing team speaks out of the storm that took the whole rope on Lenin Peak. At the centre a sequence of twenty-one love poems addressed to a woman moves through a city of subway grates and dog-eaten leaves, one of them left unnumbered and floating outside the count. The book where Rich's search for a language shared between women becomes the explicit project, and the one her readers quote most.
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