We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative.

W. H. Norton.

She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century" and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award; he went on to write the introduction to the publiAdrienne Richd volume. "
Her first collection of poetry A Change of World was selected by the senior poet W.