I thought of my marriage as something beyond understanding

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I thought of my marriage as something beyond understanding

"What does one say about a poet who, having left his wife and daughter for another marriage, then titles a book with their names, and goes on to appropriate his ex-wife's letters written under stress and pain of desertion, into a book of poems nominally addressed to his new wife?" Rich wrote in The American Poetry Review, before revealing she had a suggestion of her own: "I have to say that I think this is bullshit eloquence." from How Do You Fa…