PoemProspective Immigrants Please Note
Author / PoetAdrienne Rich
TagsChoice, Experience, Memory, Risk

Either you will
go through this door
or you will not go through.

If you go through
there is always the risk
of remembering your name.

Things look at you doubly
and you must look back
and let them happen.

If you do not go through
it is possible
to live worthily

to maintain your attitudes
to hold your position
to die bravely

but much will blind you,
much will evade you,
at what cost who knows?

The door itself makes no promises.

It is only a door.

Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich
16 May 1929 - 27 Mar 2012
Region: North America
Period: Contemporary
Movement: Feminist, Postmodern
Awards: National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

more poems by Adrienne Rich

Poem NameTopic
Twenty-One Love Poems XXIChoice, Identity, Light
Twenty-One Love Poems XXConversation, Love, Reflection
Twenty-One Love Poems XVIIIEstrangement, Love, Miracle
Twenty-One Love Poems XVIIAccident, Forces, Love
Twenty-One Love Poems XVIConnection, Distance, Intimacy
Twenty-One Love Poems XVBeach, Circumstances, Failure
Twenty-One Love Poems XIXConnection, Love, Reality
Stepping BackwardConnection, Goodbye, Identity
Snapshots of a Daughter-In-LawAngels, Experience, Memory
Rural ReflectionsExpression, Grass, Intent

all poems by Adrienne Rich

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