*SCL Fall Booksale In Honor of the Life of Poet/Activist Adrienne Rich (1929 2012) * In these times of dread, Adrienne Rich reminds us that "you cannot afford to think of being here to *receive* an education; you will do much better to think of yourselves as being here to *claim* one....The difference is that between acting and being acted-upon, and it can literally mean the difference between life and death."
Come to SCL's fall booksale and continue to claim your education. Find books that strengthen your ability to resist and live. *SCL Fall 2012 Book Sale* *Saturday, September 29* *10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.* @ The Southern California Library 6120 S. Vermont Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90044 www.socallib.org 323-759-6063 ------------------------------ All books for $1-2. Can't wait till Saturday? If you are a current SCL member, you can come early. The member preview will be from 1-7 p.m. Friday, September 28. If you're not a member yet, just sign up now<http://www.socallib.org/support/membership.html>or join at the door. [image: SCL logo] ------------------------------ *Where Making History Is a Struggle* [image: SCL Book Sale photo] *What Kind of Times Are These* By Adrienne Rich There's a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphill and the old revolutionary road breaks off into shadows near a meeting-house abandoned by the persecuted who disappeared into those shadows. I've walked there picking mushrooms at the edge of dread, but don't be fooled this isn't a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here, our country moving closer to its own truth and dread, its own ways of making people disappear. I won't tell you where the place is, the dark mesh of the woods meeting the unmarked strip of light ghost-ridden crossroads, leafmold paradise: I know already who wants to buy it, sell it, make it disappear. And I won't tell you where it is, so why do I tell you anything? Because you still listen, because in times like these to have you listen at all, it's necessary to talk about trees. What Kind of Times Are These. © 2002, 1995 by Adrienne Rich, from The Fact of a Doorframe: Selected Poems 1950-2001 by Adrienne Rich [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
