Contents

Foreword

“When We Dead Awaken”: Writing as Re-Vision

Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying

Blood, Bread, and Poetry: The Location of the Poet

Notes toward a Politics of Location

Raya Dunayevskaya’s Marx

Why I Refused the National Medal for the Arts

Defying the Space That Separates

Poetry and the Public Sphere

Muriel Rukeyser: Her Vision

Some Questions from the Profession

Interview with Rachel Spence

Arts of the Possible

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index