Roberto Tejada is the author of two collections of poetry, Gift+Verdict (Leroy Books, 1999) and Amulet Anatomy (Phylum Press, 2001). His book Travels in the Image Environment: Camera Culture Out of Mexico, 1900 and After is forthcoming from Minnesota.
The work of Adrienne Rich belongs instead to a legacy that fuses surface effect with affect; whose cultural style, too, can join outrage and joy. Such affirmative promise is what Kenneth Burke referred to as one of shaping attitudes or...