The title is also the first line of the poem “Integrity.” Here are Rich’s clear-eyed engagement with American poets, activists, and feminists of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century including Willa Cather, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Simone Weil, Ethel Rosenberg, and others, and her own relationship to their lives and work. Includes “What is Possible,” “Integrity,” “Culture and Anarchy.”
Adrienne Rich 