Susan Griffin Quote

Language is filled
with words for deprivation
images so familiar
it is hard to crack language open
into that other country
the country of being.


Unremembered country: poems (ed. Copper Canyon Pr, 1987)


Language is filled with words for deprivation images so familiar it is hard to crack language open into that other country the country of being.

Language is filled with words for deprivation images so familiar it is hard to crack language open into that other country the country of being.

Language is filled with words for deprivation images so familiar it is hard to crack language open into that other country the country of being.

Language is filled with words for deprivation images so familiar it is hard to crack language open into that other country the country of being.