CSC-logo-copy.png

Justice Education

Adrienne Rich

Excerpt from “An Atlas of the Difficult World”

Artwork: “Saudade” by Juan Alberto Negroni (c) 2022

those needed to teach, advise, persuade, weigh arguments

those urgently needed for the work of perception

work of the poet, the astronomer, the historian, architect of new streets

work of the speaker who also listens

meticulous delicate work of reaching the heart of the desperate woman,
the desperate man

—never-to-be-finished, still unbegun work of repair—it cannot be done without them

and where are they now?

Adrienne Rich, An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988–1991
(New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991), 11.

Winter 2023

CULTIVATING VIRTUE

CULTIVATING VOCATION

MORE